From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T09:22:42+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the reason for this syntax?

On 10/16/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Kevin Olemoh wrote:
>
> > When I said that I felt that the else if keyword was unnessecary what
> > I meant was that you should be able to do the following:
> >
> > if condition
> > #stuff
> > else
> > if condition
> > #stuff
> > end
>
> The problem is that you introduce the if/else ambiguity into Ruby:
>

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