if its the first true-ish match? this is not an actual :else branch, just a branch that is always true-ish and taken if reached

(cond :else (prn "always taken") (other? x) :never)

any keyword works, :else has no special meaning whatsoever here

yea I understand.. I'm just facing a weird bug and I thought that maybe I misunderstood cond. I'll keep digging, thanks

cond is a macro. you can macroexpand it to see what will be executed to dig deeper into the problem