From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-12-05T09:19:06+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif?

Hi,

In message "elseif?"
    on 02/12/05, Shannon Fang <xrfang@hotmail.com> writes:

|I just happend to find out that the "elseif" in ruby is spelled as
|"elsif". Can anyone, probably Matz, tell me if there's any "historical"
|reason? :)

Syntax did not allow "else if".  So I chose the shortest same pronounce
word.

							matz.