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It depends. You really should try to narrow you question further with an actual problem in scheme since the answer will depend on what you are trying to do.<\/p>\n

In idiomatic Scheme most should be done without side effects so you have<\/p>\n

(if predicate-expression\n    consequent-expression\n    alternative-expression) ;; alternative is optional but should be used anyway.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
But with your code you have more than one thing in the branches, something like:<\/p>\n
int test (condition)\n{\n    if (condition)\n    {\n        function1();\n        return function2();\n    }\n    else\n    {\n        function3();\n        return function4();\n    }\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Here, in order for function1<\/code> and function3<\/code> to do anything useful it has to mutate, read or write something, also called a side effect. You should try to avoid that so in Scheme you either use a let<\/code> to store a temporary variable, do the call so when it returns it is used like this:<\/p>\n
(define (test condition)\n  (if condition\n      (let ((tmp (function3)))\n        (function4 tmp))\n      (function4 (function3))))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Now. You will eventually need side effects for a few procedures and then you need to use begin<\/code> or use cond<\/code> which has explicit begin.<\/p>\n
(if predicate-expression\n    (begin \n       consequent-side-effect-expression\n       consequent-tail-expression)\n    (begin\n       alternative-side-effect-expression \n       alternative-tail-expression))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Now begin<\/code> joins together several expressions into one and the result of a begin block is it’s last expression, thus you can even use it in the predicate. Cond has an explicit begin in every consequent so I often switch from if<\/code> to cond<\/code> when I either need more than one consequent or a begin:<\/p>\n
(cond (predicate-expression  consequent-side-effect-expression \n                             consequent-tail-expression)\n\n      (predicate2-expression consequent2-tail-expression2)\n\n      (else alternative-side-effect-expression \n            alternative-tail-expression))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Often when there is side effects you not always need the alternative. Eg. you are actually not interested in what the if<\/code> returns because it may not be in tail position either. In these cases you have in the (rnrs control (6))<\/code> library when<\/code> and unless<\/code> with explicit begin:<\/p>\n
(when expression\n      consequent-side-effect-expression\n      ...\n      consequent-tail-expression)\n\n(unless expression\n        consequent-side-effect-expression\n        ...\n        consequent-tail-expression)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
A let<\/code> or a procedure<\/code> also has explicit begin:<\/p>\n
(let ()\n  (display \"hello\") ; displays \"hello\"\n  5)                ; returns 5\n\n(define (test x)\n  (display x)       ; display x\n  (+ x 5))          ; return x+5\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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