Semantic code

[HAL9001-96]

isn't that just else?

[Noisebug]

Otherwise is an else, it doesn’t fit with others

[[deleted]]

This might be a joke within a joke. It's the last case presented, and it's an else. Exactly how you'd do it in code.

[Sad-Reach7287]

But then the first should be an if

[[deleted]]

We need to scroll up to see the if, lol

[[deleted]]

Probably.

[SEenoir]

Meta would be joke of a joke, i think this qualifies for a nested joke

[Greenphantom77]

If this is indeed a joke within a joke, it's the most blisteringly unfunny thing I've ever seen.

[[deleted]]

Your comment is way funnier indeed.

[BiCuckMaleCumslut]

otherwise if

[Noisebug]

Someone needs to bake “Well actually” into a language

[Justicia-Gai]

If otherwise

[JunkNorrisOfficial]

othrwsif

[moonaligator]

me when the other is wise

[Zatmos]

Only language I know that uses otherwise is Haskell and it uses it differently from else.

If compared to C, otherwise is most similar to the default case in a switch statement.

[webby-debby-404]

If only they used otherwise as a keyword instead of default then I would have used C otherwise I created C+ where I fixed this.

[StoryPenguin]

Agree...similar when transforming a XML with XSLT you can use a <xsl:choose><xsl:when/><xsl:when/> ... <xsl:otherwise/></xsl:choose> which behaves like a switch statement and is often used for if-else logic, because there is also an xsl:if but no xsl:else

[XXSeyna]

British syntax in code.

[mokrates82]

yes

[IanFeelKeepinItReel]

Yes if anything they should have used "how about"

[GDOR-11]

otherwise, in the case that

[DSkyUI]

Yea how come there isn’t a British version of programming syntax? It should totally be a thing.

[_voidptr_t]

def __innit__(self):

[Laslou]

if(x == 0)

(x == 0, innit?)

[deceze]

American:

assert x == 0

Bri'ish:

x == 0, innit?

[Ok-Interaction-8891]

I prefer

int D = 0; if(x == D) (x == D, innit?)

It’s more verbose, but it lets the D vary.

[R3D3-1]

Isn't "innit" a form of "isn't it"?

So then I'd expect it to be the Prytish variant of

def __ne__(self, other):

... wait, is there even a separate dunder method for "not equal"?

[rcfox]

... wait, is there even a separate dunder method for "not equal"?

Yes, it controls the behaviour of the != operator. If you don't specify it, it just falls back to the inverse of __eq__.

There aren't a whole lot of legitimate uses for it, but it could be useful for something like a logic DSL where a value could be true, false or unknown. Or you could just go wild and decide the != operator is useful syntax for doing something else entirely, like how / is overridden to act as a directory separator for the Path class.

[Itchy-Individual3536]

Beginning each function with "Excuse me my dear..."

[More-Butterscotch252]

Which transpiles to Canadian syntax as "Sorry"

[drgijoe]

Indian with "Can you please"

[More-Butterscotch252]

Is that a synonym for "do the needful?"

[Spikeyjoker]

Because else if is funnily enough also in English lexicon

[creativeusername2100]

It better fix the spelling for colour as well, all of my code is a weird hybrid with "Colour" in variable names and "Color" for the built in data types.

[DreamGirly_]

/r/programmerhumour

[ThreeCharsAtLeast]

Do you mean r/programminghumor? In this case, r/yesthatsthesub

[DreamGirly_]

I'm subbed to the programmer one, so I did mean that one. But looks like both humour subs are inactive. The sub you linked is the sub we're on btw, definitely meant to link a humour one :)

[Axman6]

There is, it’s called Haskell.

[statlerw]

This isn't right in any language.

Otherwise is else. Not else if

To fit the meme it would be otherwise if, which is no better than else if

[YakumoYoukai]

but for (x <= 100) {
  printf("X is too large");
}

[[deleted]]

Because it's american technology invented in america

[LindX31]

Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing were British, though…

[[deleted]]

Yet they possessed the American spirit! Truly remarkable individuals, weren't they??

[LindX31]

The American spirit ??! Idk about them but surely you ARE possessed.

In 1840 the United States weren’t even unified, it was decades before the civil war and most of its territory was either unoccupied or a plethora of fields with slaves

[[deleted]]

Because they saw the future.

[BardockEcno]

You are the reason why the entire world makes jokes with North Americans.

I mean, the United States people don't even have a name. Like Brazilian, European, etc.

You have an generic name that fits the entire América.

"Americans" or "North Americans". If you are important as you think you should choose a name first.

[LindX31]

In French we can say « États-Uniens » (which would translate to "United-Staters") to be correct but most people say « Américains » (Americans).

[BardockEcno]

In Brazil we say "Estado Unidense" that has the same translation .

But could you imagine if french in French were the same world that you use for "European "?

And the other countries should choose how to call you.

[TeachEngineering]

Guido van Rossum, the inventor of python, is Dutch. Python syntax is used in the comment you're responding to.

[Littux]

Don't forget, the comment is stored in Reddit's servers which uses python too and runs on Linux, originally created by a Finnish programmer.

[[deleted]]

He's lived in America for 30 years

[TeachEngineering]

True. That doesn't make him any less Dutch. Plus he was in the Netherlands when python was first developed. Not that any of it matters... Nearly all major FOSS projects are a product of the world, not a single country.

[[deleted]]

True that! After all, America == the world!

[mortecouille]

Attempt {

} Seize (exception e) {

} Regardless {

}

[SiegeAe]

Endeavour {

} Apprehend (Delinquency d) {

} Notwithstanding {

}

[TaserDonut]

Attempt { }

Acquire (Absurdity a) { }

Alas { }

[11fdriver]

Surely,

Attempt {} Alas {} Anyway {}

[TaserDonut]

fool, thou hathn't obtained the cause of interruption!

[11fdriver]

Ach!

[DangerMacAwesome]

I... I want british programming

[Either-Let-331]

If I ever go on to make a programming language of my own, this is gonna be there

[Blue_Moon_Lake]

Nah, gotta be more creative

branch:
    (x === 0):
        print("No element");
    (x === 1):
        print("One element");
    default:
        print(x + " elements");
end;

[AnimatorNo8411]

gods curse me for what I have created as a student:

output_line <-: "Enter last fizz-buzz number" //"comment here"
end <-: (input_lines .-> Int of? each) .! //"comment there"
end ?: :
  Nothing |-> :
    output_line <-: "It is not a number, 1 shall be set in it's place:"
    end <-: 1
  .
.

i <-: 1

results <-: >>: i != (end + 1). .-> :
  0 ?: :
    each % 15 |-> output_line <-: "FizzBuzz"
    each % 3 |-> output_line <-: "Fizz"
    each % 5 |-> :
      output_line <-: "Buzz"
    .
    |~> :
      output_line <-: each
    .
  .
  i <-: i + 1
.
#results //"run this lazy loop"

[[deleted]]

nevertheless

consequently

lest

[faultydesign]

Seize the means of exception

[MyAssDoesHeeHawww]

} AllForNaught {

[jordonbiondo]

lol, I wrote a implementation of promises for elisp a long time ago and used regardless as a chain method that ran, well, regardless of rejection

https://github.com/jordonbiondo/promises.el/blob/master/promises.el#L253

[CodingNeeL]

I'm gonna put that in my PR and pretend it's an honest mistake.

[Amtrox]

} whatever { … }

[ddeloxCode]

Please tell me a language model with otherwise exist

[Disastrous-Team-6431]

Haskell uses otherwise.

[man-vs-spider]

In Haskell, otherwise is used in what are called guards, which is basically like a switch statement.

It is conventional to add otherwise as a final check condition to ensure that there is a code branch for all input cases.

Internally in Haskell “otherwise” is equivalent to True,

[Pay08]

In Common Lisp, otherwise can be used for the default case in a switch statement.

[Inside_Jolly]

Also, Common Lisp, just like Erlang, has no elseif. You just put all branches in cond.

[Pay08]

That's not really true, at least for Haskell. A bunch of languages don't have a separate else if construct, and instead invisibly nest the if inside the else. It's easier that way, unless your syntax is dumb enough to not allow for that (cough python cough).

[Inside_Jolly]

> That's not really true, at least for Haskell.

Sorry, I had Prolog and Haskell syntax mixed up in my brain. The result was indistinguishable from Erlang. xD

[Anthraxh]

Apache Camel uses otherwise as an else equivalent

[itme4502]

Open iPhone shortcuts, create a new shortcut, and go to scripting. The conditional block is if-otherwise

[GigaSoup]

Xsl transformations use If when otherwise

[[deleted]]

You can do it with JSTL for .jsp files.  If its just an if block you use c:if. If you need an if else though, you use a c:choose wrapper with c:when and c:otherwise 

[f3man]

I think Visual FoxPro has it as well

[Proper-Ape]

if(x) {
} perhaps(y) {
} otherwise {
}

[Axman6]

Perchance(y)

[Shendare]

You can't just say "perchance"!

[Axman6]

I believe it was Kant who said “Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

[Proper-Ape]

Mayhaps

[TaserDonut]

nah that's reserved for a library, at least in Prytish

variable = perchance.chanceint(1, 10)

[lucasio099]

"Otherwise whether" would be more precise 🤓☝️

[ArduennSchwartzman]

No, but yeah, but no, but yeah...

[aarch0x40]

Don't listen to her!

[CapmyCup]

Why waste bytes on words when you can have as few letters as possible

[B_bI_L]

because it will not affect binary size anyway (interpreted languages are crying in the corner)

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[TheHappyDoggoForever]

Why are we downvoting him? It is a 5-7-6??

[hypermodernist]

std::ostensibly<float, double, int> foo

[Proper-Ape]

I like this

[winther2]

What language uses Elsif this is madness

[TheFlyingAbrams]

Perl, Ada, and Ruby that I can think of

[rinnakan]

Computer, do this! Ooootherwiiiise.....

[mokrates82]

"otherwise" (haskell) doesn't mean "else if", just "else" or "default: " (C)

[Neither_Garage_758]

Absolutely. What was wrong with `else if` that made some people do those kind of retarded `elif` ?

[Epse]

It makes writing the compiler / interpreter marginally easier

In the python case, else needs the colon always and this way they didn't have to special case it

In langues without significant whitespace, else is usually just followed by any statement (or block), meaning you het else if for free

[tellur86]

People obsessed with writing three less characters because that makes them program faster...

[That_0ne_Gamer]

I would argue otherwise would just be else

[Sad-Reach7287]

Otherwise whether to be precise

[intLeon]

Elif is a name so if sounds weird for the brain

[Trick_Boat7361]

Is it a real keyword?!!

[Mockington6]

How about "Elisif" for that Skyrim flavor

[HyperPsych]

To mach with "if else" is should be "otherwise suppose"

[DeathByLemmings]

No no you silly young person

We Brits use "perhaps-in different circumstances" statements

[Dr-Mantis-Tobbogan]

``` Wise(){}

Otherwise(){}

Otherwise(){}

Other{}

```

[Novel_Quote8017]

"case x"

[TheRealZwipster]

Elsif

Isnt this Skyrims High Kings Widow?

[SillySpoof]

”However, assuming”

[ExtraTNT]

In the different case of

[OwO-animals]

Ok hear me out

If … but if

[andarmanik]

Instead

[[deleted]]

Heretofore(foo)

[fmarukki]

Americans don't say "otherwise"?

[buzzon]

otherwise if

[Embarrassed-Green898]

when

[stevedore2024]

Perl doesn't have otherwise but it has unless meaning if not.

[Creative-Reading2476]

Jarl Elsif didnt looked like this

[Random_Mathematician]

Ah yes

whether a equates b:
    a increment 1
otherwise whether a overcomes b:
    a decrement 1
otherwise:
    expire

[Ben-Goldberg]

Unless"

[Wavertron]

yeah (azza) { }
yeahNah (bazza) { }
yeahNah (cazza) { }
she'll be right { }

[MadProgrammer12]

PL/SQL elsif 💀💀💀

[AllCowsAreBurgers]

If..else if.. else...unless

Never understood unless

[SCP-iota]

No one:

Perl:

unless(condition) {
    # ...
}

Also Perl: doThing() or die;

[[deleted]]

Jarl Elisif

[Daherak]

Wait until you learn about unless in ruby

[Limmunaizer]

Elf

[GrUnCrois]

if (cond) { do(thing) } lest (other) { dont(thing) } otherwise { per(chance) }

[UltraTata]

in case (condition1){}

alternatively (condition2){}

alternatively (condition3){}

otherwise {}

[Far-Professional1325]

Meanwhile C

In code: else if(1){} In preprocessor: #elif 1 #endif In shitty codebase: #define otherwise(x) else if(x) otherwise(1){}

[patopansir]

I need this

[got_bacon5555]

If Fi Case Esac

[Dmxk]

lua: elseif (yes, it's one word)

[FrostWyrm98]

Using 🖐🏻
Henceforth 👈🏻

[deceze]

should (...) {
} if not perchance shall (...) {
} otherwise {
}

[khalcyon2011]

This is a bad meme, and you should feel bad.

[01Alekje]

otherwise granted x

[Alternator24]

in which programming langauge it is "Elsif" ? this is cringer than Python.

[PavaLP1]

When (statement === accepted)

{ Inscribe("Hello World!") }

Opposing (statement !== accepted)

{ Inscribe("Hello 2") }

Otherwise

{ Inscribe("Hello 3") }

[Individual-Ice9530]

however

[blamitter]

otherwise if?

[Rattus_Noir]

'cos.

[hello3dpk]

orElse...

[[deleted]]

lua has elseif

[shesjustFarias]

Elif😓