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Comment by kaushalmodi | Hacker News Reader

I have learnt that you can throw in parentheses for readability..

    if (or cond1 cond2)

The next logical step is to mark with parentheses the two branches of the if expression:

  (if (or cond1 cond2) (then) (else))

although i suppose it's not really hugo anymore..

Is there a reason something more standard like "if cond1 or cond2 then x else y" isn't supported? Parsing speed?

Maybe. It looks like Reverse Polish Notation.

It's regular Polish notation.

Going along with the joke, that's almost how elisp (most of the other lisps too, I believe) works:

    (if (or cond1 .. condn)
        (progn
          (true1)
          (true2))
      (false1)
      (false2))

But in Go templates, it would be:

{{ if (or cond1 .. condn) }} true1 true2 {{ else }} false1 false2 {{ endif }}