From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-08T16:28:44+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif v. elsif ??

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:54:10PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: elseif v. elsif ??"
>     on Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:00:36 +0900, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> writes:
> 
> |  elseif is more correct because "else" has an E in it!
> |
> |  elsif is more correct because it lends to correct pronunciation, while
> |  elseif looks like it should be pronounced "ell-safe"!
> |
> |Both are silly, all things considered.  Both approaches are "incorrect"
> |by the grammatical rules of English.
> 
> Correct or not, I chose 'elsif' as the shortest correct pronounceable
> word for 'else if'.

. . . and I'm perfectly happy with that choice.  I'm sure I'd be happy
with the choice of "elseif", as well, except that I'd be slightly more
likely to introduce typos since I use elsif in Perl a lot more often
than I use elseif in PHP.

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