> simply the latter one is nearer to your natural language (I actually think to replace "ELSE" with "OTHERWISE" would be even better) and the "ELSE" implies bot

> simply the latter one is nearer to your natural language (I actually think to replace "ELSE" with "OTHERWISE" would be even better) and the "ELSE" implies both the opening and the closing braces. Are there really studies that backup this claim? I _feel_ that I process programs and natural language very differently, that I don't look for the same things at all. I don't have a need to "read" the program as if it was text. I don't look for a natural grammar structure in it. And English is not my primary language, and it's not for a lot of people. But then, I've never studied cognitive psychology, and I cannot really say I trust what I think I know about how I process programs.