Language mavens: Is there a programming with "if then else ENDIF" syntax?
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Mon Nov 16 17:38:33 EST 2009
Steve Ferg wrote:
> I've often thought that a language with this kind of block-free syntax
> would be nice and intuitive:
>
> if <condition> then
> do stuff
> elif <condition> then
> do stuff
> else
> do stuff
> endif
>
> Note that you do not need block delimiters.
>
> Obviously, you could make a more Pythonesque syntax by using a colon
> rather then "then" for the condition terminator. You could make it
> more PL/I-like by using "do", etc.
>
> You can write shell scripts using if ... fi, but other than that I
> don't recall a language with this kind of syntax.
It's the same syntax, with `fi` written instead of `endif` -- not sure
why the difference in keyword is that big of a deal to you.
As others have pointed out, either way, there are quite a few languages
that use this type of syntax.
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