On 2007-08-03, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But that's specific to the syntax of the language. You could, > if you choose, design a language where elif was unnecessary: > > if condition: > pass > else if another_condition: > pass > > What advantage is there to "elif", apart from it needing three > fewer characters to type?
It's a great boon to the authors of auto-indenting text editors. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
