Anankastic conditional

An anankastic[1] conditional is a grammatical construction of the form

If you want X, you have to do Y.

where Y is required in order to get X, insisting a peremptory conditionate. For example:

If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends.[2]

Notes
  1. From Greek ἀναγκαστικός "compulsory" from ἀνάγκη "necessity."
  2. Spice Girls (1996), "Wannabe", Spice, Virgin Records
gollark: It's not actual regexes.
gollark: Not very GOOD sed syntax.
gollark: Oh, that's a command.
gollark: I mean the general sense of "you", since "one" sounds weirdly formal.
gollark: I mean, they're programmed with manual memory management somewhere lower in the stack, obviously, but you don't have to touch that so it is much less hassle.


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