We should be allowed to impose boolean logic on the "it" inside when expressions

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for instance, this piece of code doesn’t even let the program compile
while it should
(ignore the fact that this code is wrong)

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You can write "left", "counterclockwise" -> ... to achieve what you want. That’s even fewer characters.

Note that your suggestion for a syntax gets ambiguous if you overload the || operator.

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FWIW, you can’t overload any of the boolean operators in Kotlin right now.

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