From: Ted <ted@...>
Date: 2002-12-06T06:54:28+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif?

I apologize for the message.  'Cat-heard' should be 'cat-herd'.

And I don't mean to be inflammatory -- just getting in my $2.00 (in terms of 2002 monies).

> Yuk!  Ruby was presented to me as a 'clean' language.
> Aliases are -- in my not-so-humble-opinion -- an abomination.
> Aliases mean that when reading someone else's code you have to remember TWO things instead of one.
> They serve no purpose except the preservation of the status quo of a cat-heard of programmers.
> 
> But then, my first language was 1620 machine language.
> Not even mnemonics, just a string of numbers to program the beast...
> 
> > Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't think that Ruby is a democracy.  :-)
> > 
> > And that's a good thing.
> > 
> > > (... I think that there is such thing
> > > as too many ways to do it).
> > 
> > But we already have aliases all over the place in the classes
> > and libraries.  Look at just the Array class:
> > 
> > 	collect!	map!
> > 	size		length
> > 	indices		indexes
> > 	slice		[ ]
> > 	to_ary		to_a
> > 
> > And one of them is just a change of spelling.
> > 
> > Seems like adding an 'elseif' alias is a simple and
> > forward-looking thing to do.  Drop 'elsif' some day.
> > 
> > And I don't buy the premise that 'elseif' is harder than 'elsif'.
> > They're both pronounced "else if", right?
> > 
> > --
> > Mike Hall
> > 
> 
>