From: paul@... (Paul J. Sanchez)
Date: 2002-12-06T05:55:29+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif?

>>>>> "Francois" == Francois GORET <fg@siamecommerce.com> writes:

    Francois> On Thursday 05 December 2002 16:21, Shannon Fang wrote:
    >> How about a vote? I vote to add elseif as an
    >> alternative... Least Superise... I like it.
    >> 
    >> Shannon

    Francois> Quicker than a vote: do it yourself for your personal
    Francois> installation of Ruby ;-)

    Francois> Edit the "keywords" file in the Ruby source, add the
    Francois> line:

    Francois> elseif, {kELSIF, kELSIF}, EXPR_BEG

    Francois> and recompile ruby. Needs gperf from gnu.org.

    Francois> Francois (who does prefer elsif !)

That's what people suggested to me when I brought up the topic several
months ago.  The problem is that then my code is not portable.