From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2009-11-14T22:55:09+09:00
Subject: Re: elsif

On Nov 14, 7:03 am, Ralph Shnelvar <ral...@dos32.com> wrote:
> BK>     elsif bar.is_a? String
>
> As a newbie I would surely like to know why the language decided on
> "elsif" rather than "elseif".

Because a precedent had been set in Perl. That's one of the
unfortunate Perlisms in Ruby.

At least Matz didn't borrow it from Bash, which uses "elif".