“A damn stupid thing to do” – The origins of CPL, BCPL, and C (2020)

Re:“A damn stupid thing to do” – The origins of CPL, BCPL, a... by jolmg on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:57AM (#33955276)

Haskell uses `otherwise`. Example use:

  greater x y
    | x > y     = x
    | otherwise = y

In Haskell's case, this is a conditional syntax that's alternative to if-then-else, so `else` was already taken. `otherwise` is just a conventional constant for `True` that's chosen for readability.

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Re:“A damn stupid thing to do” – The origins of CPL, BCPL, a... by Y_Y on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:48PM (#33957697)

Which lets you write gems like:

    if otherwise then not

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