From: "Gennady F. Bystritsky" <gfb@...>
Date: 2002-12-06T06:49:28+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hall" <mghall@enteract.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: elseif?


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> Seems like adding an 'elseif' alias is a simple and
> forward-looking thing to do.  Drop 'elsif' some day.

Can you imagine that there are people who love "elsif" and hate "elseif"?
;-) And for them "Drop 'elsif' some day" would be as big of an issue as for
you having "elseif" (let alone compatibility).

>
> And I don't buy the premise that 'elseif' is harder than 'elsif'.
> They're both pronounced "else if", right?
>
> --
> Mike Hall
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