[Python-ideas] "else if" as equivalent for "elif"

[Ryan Gonzalez]

On October 21, 2015 2:26:47 PM CDT, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>On 2015-10-21 19:16, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
>> On 21.10.2015 20:05, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
>>> The Python Zen says:
>>>
>>> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do
>it.
>>>
>>> elif uses less typing, anyway. Why type 3 more characters when you
>>> really don't need to? :D
>>
>> Because it's one of those "Python looks strange"? ;-)
>>
>The C preprocessor has #elif. Is that strange too? :-)
>
>(It could be argued that it _is_ strange that the C preprocessor has an
>explicitly-terminated "#if ... #endif", whereas the C language itself
>doesn't have an explicitly-terminated "if".)
>

It's the C preprocessor. How is it NOT strange? :)

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