Do you say "When you got the result, let me know"? I think you would say "If you got the result, let me know." My question is whether a when-clause can be expressed with the past tense form meaning something in the future.I think torusan is right, but how about when the condition is not looking very good and the chance to get the result is low, is it still not possible to say it in the past form with either 'if' or 'when', meaning like if we are lucky enough to get the hard-to-get result?I've seen that native speakers use to say something about in the future, even right before the speaker actually shows doing it. "(...) if I wrote this sentence: "What if I drew (...)" You would interpret it as me (...)" So, I've gotten an impression that the use of can be very subjective.