Re: pl/pgsql oddity

Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:27:53PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>
>> I don't know of any other language that permits multiple spellings
>> for the same construct.  I'd be concerned with starting such a
>> precedent.
>
> I'd be in favor of making it a bloody law that every bloody language
> use the same bloody spelling.  I'm forever forgetting whether a
> particular language uses ELSE IF, ELSEIF, ELSIF, or ELIF.  Grumble,
> grumble, grumble....

As a relative newbie to PostgreSQL (but an old-timer to programming
languages and other DMBSs) I would certainly vote for allowing elseif.
This is my first encounter of "else" without the terminating "e", and
that would not be a natural omission for me.

--
Guy Rouillier