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Why is "while" ticking me off???

Frank Miles fpm at u.washington.edu
Fri Oct 6 10:53:22 EDT 2000 
In article <39DCE8B8.3100BE89 at seebelow.org>,
Grant Griffin  <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote:
>
>Personally, if I wanted to tinker with Python's syntax, my first choice
>would be to turn "elif" into "else if".  Perhaps there's some
>parser-related reason this won't work, but I'm always bugged by "elif"
>because I can never remember whether it's "elif", "elsif", or "elseif". 
>(BTW, if one _had_ to make "else if" into a single keyword wouldn't the
>last make one make the most sense?  But I suppose that Guido thought it
>was best to follow the poor precedent of C...)

But C uses 'else if', just what you wanted...

	-frank

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