I believe else if, elsif and elif should all be legal and interchangeable. Choice is good (TM).
It should be up to the project manager / team to agree on (preferably formatting software based rules) code conventions for a source base.
No one in their sound mind would use these words as identifiers, so no loss there, and the parsing cost / complexity increase is negligable.
elif
is something I'd really enjoy.I believe
else if
,elsif
andelif
should all be legal and interchangeable. Choice is good (TM). It should be up to the project manager / team to agree on (preferably formatting software based rules) code conventions for a source base. No one in their sound mind would use these words as identifiers, so no loss there, and the parsing cost / complexity increase is negligable.