From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-12-05T18:33:16+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif?

> How about a vote? I vote to add elseif as an alternative... Least
> Superise... I like it.

I don't think that Ruby is a democracy.  :-)

Really, Matz is the creator of Ruby.  It's his choice.
(but if I were to vote, I'd vote "no".  I think that there is such thing
as too many ways to do it).

Cheers,
Daniel.

>
> Shannon
>
> >From: paul@argelfraster.org (Paul J. Sanchez)
> >Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> >To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> >Subject: Re: elseif?
> >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:53:08 +0900
> >
> > >>>>> "Shannon" == Shannon Fang <xrfang@hotmail.com> writes:
> >
> >     Shannon> Hi, I just happend to find out that the "elseif" in ruby
> >     Shannon> is spelled as "elsif". Can anyone, probably Matz, tell me
> >     Shannon> if there's any "historical" reason? :)
> >
> >That was the thing I found most jarring about Ruby, too.  Not being a
> >Perl programmer, "elsif" violated the principal of least surprise for
> >me.  As I said in a post here a couple of months ago, I think it's a
> >human factors issue.  I understand all the Perl'ers and old Ruby hands
> >wanting to keep "elsif", but since it doesn't conflict with anything I
> >wish "elseif" would be added as an alternate syntax.  After all,
> >there's more than one way to do lots of other things in Ruby, and
> >that's a good thing!
> >
> >--paul
>
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