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On Jun 27, 10:37=A0am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> dropped "if", because you don't need it:
>
> =A0 =A0(A then B [else C])
>
> is syntactically unambiguous and easier to read.

As you can see on the relevant AI, this was in fact considered (among
lots of other things). FWIW, I'm quite glad they went for the 'if', to
me it is *much* easier to read.