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Idiom #225 Declare and use an optional argument

Declare an optional integer argument x to procedure f, printing out "Present" and its value if it is present, "Not present" otherwise

function f( x )
	if x then
		print("Present", x)
	else
		print("Not present")
	end
end
(defn f [& [x]]
  (if (integer? x)
    (println "Present" x)
    (println "Not present")))

Optional argument with positional parameters

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