From: Shannon Fang <xrfang@...>
Date: 2002-12-06T07:55:43+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif?

Hi,

Since Matz is the creator and his opinion is not to add elseif, I'd
rather say, we keep it like that. I agree with the view that alias is
not a good thing. Because it makes READING a program harder, when you
I first encounter do |var| ... end, I didn't realize {|var|... } is also
ok, but it seems straight forward... 

The problem with elsif is that I think all major lanugages, C/C++ Pascal
Basic... are not using such strange thing. When I type in "else if" and
"elseif" in ruby, it doesn't work... It makes learning a bit
not-so-straightforward...

I think for most people here, ruby is not the first lanugage, but ruby
is definitely among the best, if not THE best. As an incentive to learn
a second, third, fourth... lanugage, it must be easy to learn...

Tks.
Shannon

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 06:57:04 +0900
"Rich Kilmer" <rich@infoether.com> wrote:

> elsif is a keyword, not a method...you cannot alias it...and I think
> it's a silly request to change it to elseif just because its "hard to
> remember".  You have to learn every method name and function in Ruby to
> use them, I would think learning the (limited) keywords would be simple.
> 
> 
> Next someone is going to ask to change 'case' to 'switch' ;-)