From: Nathan Taylor-Hoover <onebitcipher@...>
Date: 2007-06-28T01:23:59+09:00
Subject: Re: missing kEND for if statement, but not for a case statement?

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That is excellent.  Thank you.  I thought it was elseif but when I used that
in my text editor that has support for ruby it did not colorize it as a
keyword, however when I used else if it did so I was mislead into believing
I had the correct syntax.

On 6/27/07, Chris Carter <cdcarter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/27/07, Nathan Taylor-Hoover <onebitcipher@gmail.com> wrote:
> > begin
> >     loopbreak = false
> >     while loopbreak != true
> >         str = gets
> >         if str =~ /help|HELP/
> >             puts help
> >         else if str =~ /quit|QUIT/
> >             loopbreak = true
> >         else if str =~ /options|OPTIONS/
> >             puts options
> >         else
> >             puts "{#str} is not a valid command"
> >         end
> >     end
> >
> > ensure
> >     somehousecleaning()
> > end
> >
>
> The "else if" construct is elsif in ruby.  doing else if will start an
> actual new if statement that needs to be ended.
>
> --
> Chris Carter
> concentrationstudios.com
> brynmawrcs.com
>
>

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