Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > The tokeniser could send two tokens "else" and "if" whenever it > recognizes the keyword "elsif" -- so this isn't a problem.
The primary advantage, to my mind, in using C<elsif>, is that it eliminates the dangling-else ambiguity -- so splitting it in half removes almost ALL the value of even having an C<elsif> keyword. =thom "More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death." -- _Tunnel_in_the_Sky_, Robert Heinlein