From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T21:28:51+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif v. elsif ??

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:08:35PM +0900, 7stud 7stud wrote:
> 
> To me 'elif' stands out like a red flag.  'elsif' is a more subtle 
> differentiation, and I couldn't spot it even though I had the problem 
> narrowed down to 3 lines of code.  The "Ruby in 20 Minutes" tutorial is 
> obviously geared to the experienced programmer(beginner's don't know 
> what classes are or what an 'attr_accessor' is), so I would suggest 
> putting this in the tutorial:
> 
> LOOK AT THE ELSIF SYNTAX CAREFULLY--IT'S 'ELSIF' NOT 'ELSEIF'
> 
> with the 'E' in elseif in red.

Really, your complaint amounts to nothing more than "I'm more used to
the way language A does it than the way language B does it -- so
language B must be wrong."

Technically speaking, "elseif", "elsif", and "elif" are equally "wrong".
To do it right, you'd have to make it "else if".

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