| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PSQL commands: \quit_if, \quit_unless |
| Date: | 2016-11-29 22:08:12 |
| Message-ID: | 896ed152-1925-d78a-ed14-10e3df03be94@dunslane.net |
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On 11/29/2016 03:07 PM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
>
> I cannot remember a language with elseif* variants, and I find them
> quite ugly, so from an aethetical point of view I would prefer to
> avoid that... On the other hand having an "else if" capability makes
> sense (eg do something slightly different for various versions of pg),
> so that would suggest to stick to a simpler "if" without variants, if
> possible.
>
>
FTR I *strongly* disagree with this. (And if you can't remember a
language that comes with them then you need to get out more. The Bourne
shell, where it's spelled "elif", and Ada are two obvious examples.)
cheers
andrew
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