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From: wsmith@mdbs.UUCP (Bill Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Implies
Summary: elsif is an abbreviation
Message-ID: <1458@mdbs.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 89 21:36:16 GMT
References: <1473@moondance.cs.uq.oz> <202@eiffel.UUCP>
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>In article <202@eiffel.UUCP>, bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) writes:
> As a minor syntactic comment, no Eiffel keyword is an abbreviation, so
> that a different name would have had to be found for `limplies' had
> two operators been retained.

"elsif" is an abbreviation.  (So much for dogma.)

Bill Smith
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(my opinions only)