Re: pl/pgsql oddity

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:14:42PM -0300, Clodoaldo Pinto wrote:
>  --- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> escreveu:
> > Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > > Tom also suggested just adding 'elseif' as an alternative for 'elsif'.
> > > That sounds like it would be worth doing.
> >
> > I think we should go ahead and do that for 8.0.  I'm getting tired of
> > reading reports that stem from this mistake (I think this is the third
> > one in the past month ...).  I can't see any real downside to accepting
> > both spellings, can you?
> >
> >             regards, tom lane
>
> I made the exact same mistake and it took me a good chunk of energy to figure
> it out. I didn't report it to the list. When one look at the manual it is very
> easy to read elseif in instead of elsif.

I'd vote for one of two options:

1. Accept both elseif and elsif as equivalent or
2. Add some parsing magic to give a meaningful error message so people
see it immediatly.

Maybe just match in "elseif" at beginning of a line and error out with
"maybe you meant elsif".
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