Discussion on: The `else if` Keyword Doesn’t Exist in Java

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Replies for: Yeah, I suppose I just lumped the idea of else if as another keyword when writing branches. It never occurred to me that else and if were separate,...

Yeah, it's mostly so you can use it in templates (since it was a templating language to begin with really):

<?php if ($foo): ?>
  <h1>Welcome to <?php echo $foo; ?></h1>
<?php else: ?>
  <h1>Welcome to something that isn't very foo</h1>
<?php endif; ?>

It's a big ugly, but it's better than this:

<?php if ($foo) { ?>
  <h1>Welcome to <?php echo $foo; ?></h1>
<?php } else { ?>
  <h1>Welcome to something that isn't very foo</h1>
<?php } ?>

I can imagine that second syntax is a nightmare to debug. haha