A More Logical Alternative to 'else'

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This image uses the popular two-panel 'Drake Hotline Bling' meme format to make a joke about programming syntax. In the top panel, the rapper Drake is shown with a grimace, holding up a hand in a gesture of rejection towards the word 'else' written in black font. In the bottom panel, Drake is smiling and pointing in approval at the word 'ifn't'. The humor comes from proposing 'ifn't' - a portmanteau of 'if not' - as a more intuitive or amusing alternative to the standard 'else' keyword used for conditional logic in most programming languages. It's a classic developer in-joke that plays on the idea of redesigning fundamental language constructs to be more like natural language, even if the suggestion is completely fictional and impractical

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick I'm not saying we should add 'ifn't' to the language spec, but it would make my pull requests 100% more passive-aggressive

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

I'm not saying we should add 'ifn't' to the language spec, but it would make my pull requests 100% more passive-aggressive
Anonymous

Go 2.0 roadmap: deprecate ‘else’, add ‘ifn’t err’ - because six hundred identical error guards are fine, but one else is a readability crime
Anonymous

After 20 years in the industry, I've seen teams spend hours debating tabs vs spaces, but the real question is why we haven't standardized on 'ifn't' yet - it would save us from explaining to juniors why 'else if' isn't 'elseif' in some languages but 'elif' in Python
Anonymous

After 20 years of writing conditionals, I've realized the real technical debt isn't the else blocks - it's explaining to the new architect why we can't just refactor the entire codebase to use 'if'n't' for 'semantic clarity.' Though I'll admit, it's more readable than that ternary operator nested seven levels deep in the legacy payment processing module
Anonymous

'else' hides the negation; 'ifn't' exposes it - because real architects don't bury logic in shadows
Anonymous

We banned else for "guard clauses," so someone shipped ifn't - now code reviews are De Morgan proofs and on-call is boolean algebra at 3 a.m
Anonymous

Real senior move: replace else with guard clauses; dub it ifn't, claim −1 cyclomatic complexity, and watch someone file a language RFC
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

😂😂
@sylfn 5y

Russian schools: иначе (Russian word for "else", used in some langs, like KuMir for teaching informatics)
1. @freeapp2014 5y
  
  isn't kumir just a system used to introduce small grade school students to programming
2. @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  1С developer detected
  
  @freeapp2014 5y
  
  lmao
  
  @sylfn 5y
  
  i program in C++ and partily Python, but in school I had to use KuMir
  
  @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  In school I have been using ЛогоМиры (I don't know how it should be properly translated, don't ban me please it's just a programming language or IDE name)
  
  @freeapp2014 5y
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
  
  @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  There was Russian dialect in it
  
  @sylfn 5y
  
  ah, nostalgy... I used simpler PervoLogo 3 (ПервоЛого)
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  no problem
  
  @UQuark 5y
  
  Kumar💨
@unexpiredmilk 5y

I need to use it for rofl one time
@Dobreposhka 5y

Shut up! Don't embarrass yourself. >KuMir is top
@sylfn 5y

Translation: shut up, dont shame yourself! Kumir is best
@RiedleroD 5y

hey, I know you…

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