Re: pl/pgsql oddity - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: pl/pgsql oddity
Date
Msg-id 20041216181619.GA68072@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Re: pl/pgsql oddity  (Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:27:53PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:

> I don't know of any other language that permits multiple spellings for
> the same construct.  I'd be concerned with starting such a precedent.

I'd be in favor of making it a bloody law that every bloody language
use the same bloody spelling.  I'm forever forgetting whether a
particular language uses ELSE IF, ELSEIF, ELSIF, or ELIF.  Grumble,
grumble, grumble....

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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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