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

[MRAB]

On 2015-10-21 20:49, Geoffrey Spear wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:26 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com
> <mailto:python at mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote:
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>     The C preprocessor has #elif. Is that strange too? :-)
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>     (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".)
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> "We stole this short spelling from C" shouldn't be an argument in favor
> of any spelling, in my opinion.
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> (Not creating a second way to do something or deprecating a language
> keyword is a much stronger argument, of course; I'm as opposed to this
> proposal as I'd be to a propose to rename strptime and strftime, but I'd
> also think "but that's how C spells them!" would be a bad argument in
> that case. Don't even get me started about Popen objects...)
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Modula-2 spells it "elsif". The problem there is that you then have to 
be very
careful when talking about it to someone else: "Did you say 'elsif' or 
'else if'?"