Scratch

Somewhat.. you probably meant another 'If Else' block placed inside the 'Else' of a first 'If Else' Block, just to clear up any confusion on the part of maxskywalker.

In Python, sometimes you need more than just one Elif though, so the If Else in the Else space would be the best way to go at it for now.

coolstuff wrote:

As Ace-of-Spades mentioned, you can in fact place "if else" inside an "if else."

A lot of scripting room could be saved with this block, however - something of a button that creates another "else if" statement without indenting the new block would be really handy, and teach some more accurate programming skills. I certainly agree with this idea 

I don't think you understand. This is how elif is used in python:

x = raw_input("Who's the best Scratcher ever?")
while x != "Jimmy-Jermaine":
    if"Jimmy-Jermaine"in x:
        print "I agree!"
    elif"archmage"in x:
        print "Did you mean Jimmy-Jermaine?"
    elif"RHY3756547"in x:
        print "Did you mean Jimmy-Jermaine?"
    elif"m44"in x:
        print "Did you mean Jimmy-Jermaine?"
    else:
        print "That's not right, the proper answer is Jimmy-Jermaine."

They won't make 10 different blocks with varying lengths of Elif dents in them if it can be done with the simple combination of 2 or more blocks.

BYOB? Never heard of it. Do you mean BYOND?

I've never heard of them, and I don't trust any of these 'Scratch Mods', they could be viruses in disguise.

coolstuff wrote:

As Ace-of-Spades mentioned, you can in fact place "if else" inside an "if else."

A lot of scripting room could be saved with this block, however - something of a button that creates another "else if" statement without indenting the new block would be really handy, and teach some more accurate programming skills. I certainly agree with this idea 

Agreed. If you had to stack a lot of "If, else" blocks inside each other, looking at all those C blocks could get confusing really fast. This solution would work really well, in a similar fashion to BYOB's "The list: [] <-  ->" blocks. (The arrows add/remove a space for an argument in the block.)

Jimmy-Jermaine wrote:

I've never heard of them, and I don't trust any of these 'Scratch Mods', they could be viruses in disguise.

that's a fair guess. actually, BYOB is probably the safest, as jens was once a part of the scratch team. 

colorfusion wrote:

You can just put an if block inside the else if.
I don't think it really needs to be added, it would take up more space and if you cant be bothered to place 1 more block then sorry but I think you are just being lazy.

I think you misunderstand - it's not the time we're worried about, it's the space. If you had a little arrow to add another "if" statement to add another item, it would take up a LOT less space - the endless line of "if... else" statements in most projects is a little unsettling, to be honest 

ThePCKid wrote:

In Scratch you can do this:

[if <blah>]
|
|[else]
||[if <blah>]
|||
|||[else]
||||...

Well yeah, but once you start getting a lot of those stacked inside each other, it gets really oversized, cluttered, and confusing.    An Else-if alternative would be much better.

Last edited by Harakou (2010-07-27 00:10:06)

ThePCKid wrote:

Harakou wrote:

ThePCKid wrote:

In Scratch you can do this:

[if <blah>]
|
|[else]
||[if <blah>]
|||
|||[else]
||||...

Well yeah, but once you start getting a lot of those stacked inside each other, it gets really oversized, cluttered, and confusing.    An Else-if alternative would be much better.

That would be confusing

How so? If you can understand If-else, than Else-if doesn't seem that hard to comprehend.

I am learning python as well and I can't get elif to work

I support! I think that in place of the arrows, however, a little (+) button at the bottom of the block would be better, and a little (x) next to the deletable else-if constructs.