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\iffmode seems to fail for the first token in every matrix cell. Here is a minimal working example.

\documentclass[margin=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\newcommand{\foo}{%
    \ifmmode A%
    \else B%
    \fi%
}

\begin{document}
    \foo\foo\foo\
    $
    \begin{matrix}
    \foo\foo\foo& x\foo\\
    \foo&x\\
    \end{matrix}
    $
\end{document}

What I expect it to output is this

1

Yet, it outputs this

2

How should I solve this problem?

Τίμων
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    This is known, use \relax\ifmmode instead. – Skillmon Aug 16 '19 at 15:49
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    Is this for academic interest or for a real use case? If the latter, please add the intended code. Anyway, the braces around A and B are wrong. Not in the sense they produce errors, but because conditional don’t take braced arguments. – egreg Aug 16 '19 at 15:56
  • @egreg, you're right, the braces in the MWE are useless (removed now). They were necessary in my original code, though. Anyway, problem solved. Thanks :) – Τίμων Aug 16 '19 at 16:10

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