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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "MOST COMMON NOVICE BUG" contest
Message-ID: <15244@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 9 Mar 90 23:11:14 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <7366@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>"else if" implies dangling statements, which I abhor mildly.  "elif" doesn't
>pronounce right, even if it does spell "file" backwards.  "elseif" is ugly.
>What's left?

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