Use the power of get to skip if tests

[muffato]

Another take on #12

Because you still had the if tests, many get seemed unnecessary.
The alternative is to take advantage of get to remove the need to check things in advance. Then you can use the second argument of get to define the value you would have used in the else block

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[jvfe]

Makes much more sense now, thanks!