Peter Hickman wrote:

> 1) People complain that they have to use 'elsif' and not 'elseif'
> 2) Some one says something like "Seems like adding an 'elseif' alias is
>     a simple and forward-looking thing to do.  Drop 'elsif' some day."
> 3) An alias for 'elseif' is created

  4) Everyone is happy!   The end.


What bugs me is that 'elsif' is just garbage.
We don't use "whl" for 'while' or "lup" for "loop" or "noo" for 'new',
or "yeeld", "souper", "kase", "whyle", "bgin", "resque", "brake",
"retreye", "raze".

So why some half-bastardized word for 'elseif' or 'elif'?
Just because perl has it.   
Oh, ok.


Of the other scripting languages, what besides perl uses it?
  Shell   elif
  Python  elif	(yes?)

  Tcl/Tk  elseif and 'else if'
  Awk     else if

  Perl    elsif


All right, all right, I'm done.
--
Mike