Elseif?

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personally, I prefer “elseif” than “elsif” (I was surprise actually -maybe
because I do not do perl :-).

“elseif” is closer to english (ruby is closer to english, iinm) and is less
prone to typo. “elseif” is read as “else”-“if”. “elsif” is read as
“el”-“sif”, since “s” now has strong affinity w “if” than “el”…

I may be wrong though…

kind regards -botp

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-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon Fang [mailto:xrfang@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 7:31 AM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: elseif?

Hi,

I just happend to find out that the “elseif” in ruby is
spelled as “elsif”. Can anyone, probably Matz, tell me if
there’s any “historical” reason? :slight_smile:

Shannon

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personally, I prefer “elseif” than “elsif” (I was surprise actually -maybe
because I do not do perl :-).

“elseif” is closer to english (ruby is closer to english, iinm) and is less
prone to typo. “elseif” is read as “else”-“if”. “elsif” is read as
“el”-“sif”, since “s” now has strong affinity w “if” than “el”…

“elseif” is more akward to pronounce. I don’t think it’s less prone to
typos (it might be, I’m probably just used to ‘elsif’). But I think it’s
too tempting to think of ‘elseif’ as two words - i.e. ‘else if’.

I think that the best optinos are “elsif” or “else if”. The good thing
about “elsif” IMHO is that it’s one word. I find that more clear.