On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:56:56PM +0900, 7stud 7stud wrote:
> 
> Does Ruby try differentiate itself in ridiculous ways like that just for
> the sake of being different?  And why isn't something like that
> explicitly pointed out in a beginning tutorial?  So far, I have to give
> Ruby two thumbs down.

Ruby isn't the only language that does that.

"Different" would be more like the way bash does it: "elif"

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