TIL Elixir's || supports nil fallback

TIL Elixir can do nil || something (evaluating to something) just like the Javascript trick:

default_value = 123
my_value = my_map[:some_field] || default_value

If :some_field is present & non-nil, my_value will be assigned the value from the map; otherwise it will fall back to default_value.

(Note that this works with the || operator, but not or—if this is as surprising to you as it was to me, see TIL about the differences between Elixir’s boolean operators. 😅)