Re: Small gripe about elsif...




Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
Why the keyword "elsif?" It looks so wrong... Specifically, for me, it
bears little resemblance to what it represents: "else if."

Something that Ruby inherited from Perl. I've found that language
designers can never agree on else if. I've seen

elseif
else if
elsif
elif

I mean...pick one.

Mike

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