On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:14:42PM -0300, Clodoaldo Pinto wrote: > --- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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". -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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