From: Dave Pearson Date: 2002-12-06T18:39:08+09:00 Subject: Re: elseif? * Shannon Fang : > 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... ....but only of you're coming from a language that doesn't have "elsif". If you come to ruby from a language that does or, even better, come to ruby regardless of other languages (IOW, learn ruby, don't learn how to do language foo in ruby) it really shouldn't be a problem. > 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... Alternatively some programmers try and learn other "first" languages, or learn different languages because they are just that: different. -- Dave Pearson http://www.davep.org/