"Joseph F. Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > > >The tokeniser could send two tokens "else" and "if" whenever it > >recognizes the keyword "elsif" -- so this isn't a problem. > > > > I think the point of having C<if> as a sub rather than as a separate > syntax is so the parser doesn't have to do anything special for > special keywords.
The specialness could be generalized, so that its no longer a parser hack: <proposal rating='NOOOooo'> #define elsif else if </idea> Dave.
