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Expand Up @@ -34,6 +34,20 @@ if x == 5 {
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If there is more than one case, use an `else if`:

```rust
let x = 5;

if x == 5 {
println!("x is five!");
} else if x == 6 {
println!("x is six!");
} else {
println!("x is not five or six :(");
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This should be nor instead of or

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I would write "x is not five or six" or "x is five nor six", but the second sounds archaic to me.

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FYI https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10049/usage-of-neither-nor-versus-not-or

I'm not going to spend too much time defending my suggestion here, but I stand by not...nor

}
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This is all pretty standard. However, you can also do this:


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