The rational part of me screams that "else if" should be a single token, so I'm left with: elif, elsif or elseif. "else if" is really an old C hack that enable

The rational part of me screams that "else if" should be a single token, so I'm left with: elif, elsif or elseif. "else if" is really an old C hack that enables the parser to not have a special production for else-ifs, and it would generate a deep parse tree, rather than a flat one. I feel like that is wrong. A chain of if-elif-else should be conceptually linear, not nested. Moreover, in a language that doesn't require parens around the conditions, it would look rather "disorientating": } else if a == b && b == c {