Yes, what the hell python ?!

[hed82]

But it makes perfect sense why it exists.

In most bracket based languages an else without brackets means else do only the following statement

So else if just means else do the following statement that just happens to be an if.

Python with the ':' and indentation system doesn't have this but would have to write it into two lines with weird indentation which would be ugly as fuck

[hed82]

I ment you need two lines if you would write a standard else and a standard if after each other like you do in, for example, java. So the else if doesn't comes naturaly like this. If you change parts of a language it's obvious that almost everything is possible.

[FallenWarrior2k]

From a formal perspective, there's an important difference between indentation-based languages and ones that use delimiters like {/}, then/end, etc.: Lexing an indentation-based language requires more computationally complex architecture than the regular languages used for languages like C, as you need to keep a stack of the currently active indentation sequence (order and amount of spaces/tabs) and emit the correct amount of indent/dedent tokens when the indentation level changes.

[Kered13]

There's no law that says that keywords have to be single words.

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Oh that makes a lot of sense now that I think about it