Talk:elif

RFD discussion: February 2019–July 2020

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elif

Keyword in certain programming languages. We don't tend to include these and shouldn't; the discussion has been had before but I can't remember where. If we did include them by policy, we would immediately be pulling in thousands upon thousands of obscure, supposedly "translingual" words, with varying capitalisation (sometimes allowed to vary, sometimes forced upper, sometimes forced lower) and they could not be defined in a dictionary style since they are programming keywords with a logical interpretation. I hope delteing this will be a no-brainer. Equinox ◑ 07:49, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Delete. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 13:11, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Is it English like if, else, iff, for, class and also used in regular text (and not only source code)? If so just fix the language. Delete the Translingual; keep the English (if it exists). --QueeroDeera (talk) 20:52, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

It's not used with the same sense in English (nobody says "do this, elif that, then do another thing"); it can be used to count occurrences ("there are two elifs in this code") but I don't think that's enough to keep it. Indeed I even remember a normal English word having its noun deleted for this reason: something like "two somewhats on the page". Equinox ◑ 11:36, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

I agree. I have never heard elif used as an English word, and I really don't think we should include programming language keywords. Uranographer (talk) 06:06, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Deleted. Also, the definition given appears to be wrong. It claims elif is used "in many programming languages," but as far as I know it is only used in Python, at least in terms of notable programming languages. Basic searching methods don't come up with any results at all for other programming languages that use elif. If some obscure one exists somewhere, that still doesn't make it "used in many." PseudoSkull (talk) 21:13, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Also used in the C preprocessor. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:55, 3 July 2020 (UTC)