[Issue 1053] New: Make 'static else if' or 'static if (...) {...} else if' work

[Frits van Bommel]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
> news:et2qs5$2okg$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Maybe perl/python/ruby/cpp/tcl were right.  Else if should be a single 
>> keyword.  Then it wouldn't be an issue.
> 
> Phh.. that's because their grammars aren't as flexible ;)
> 
> But C++ doesn't have "elseif" as a single word.  Maybe you're thinking of 
> the "#elif" preprocessor command?

I didn't see 'c++' mentioned, only 'cpp', which is (confusingly) also a 
common acronym for the C (or C++) pre-processor. So I'd guess he was 
indeed thinking of #elif :).