Hello Tom,
> But really, \fi is something that could only be loved by a certain
> academic breed of hackers.
Ah ah:-) I'll take that as a compliment:-)
> I'd go for \endif, probably. That still doesn't relate well with
> \unless, so +1 for \if, \ifnot, \else, and \endif.
Ok, that is a clear opinion.
> I'm not really convinced that we need an \elseif at this point.
> It could be added later if people find it compelling, but I'm
> having a hard time believing that it's essential.
My experience with cpp is that #elif is quite useful in some cases,
typically with alternate implementations depending on dependences, to
avoid this:
#ifdef HAVE_XXX ... #else #ifdef HAVE_YYY ... #else #ifdef HAVE ZZZ ... #else #error "oops!" #endif // HAVE_ZZZ
#endif// HAVE_YYY #endif // HAVE_XXX
I think that some realistic use cases examples for psql would be great...
If the else-if is a common pattern then it should be at least in the
design, even if not implemented right away. Also ISTM that having else-if
is not too compatible with multiplying \if* because it leads to pretty
ugly \el*if* variants which are quite hard to parse and understand, so
there is an impact on the design.
--
Fabien.