On Aug 3, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to mention the language did not allow to have else > & if > in the same statement. IOW : > > if some_condition then > do_sometehing > else > if some_other_condition then > do_something_else > else > if yet_another_condition then > do_yet_another_thing > else > if your_still_here then > give_up('this language is definitively brain dead') > end if > end if > end if > end if
Usually that's because the language provides a switch/case statement construct. If it does and you try to write the above code, it isn't the language that's brain-dead! ;-) -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list