What about simplifying if-else statements ?

[cumulonimbus]

No opinion on the whitespace w.r.t colon, but I've written stuff in the past to 
keep the conditions aligned like this:
    
    
    if false: discard
    elif 3==4: echo "Something wrong"
    elif 5==6: echo "Somethine else wrong"
    else   :   echo "Something right"
    
    
    Run

which lets me reshuffle the "elif" lines and doesn't give the first any special 
role. (And note, I've placed the colon in the else line here to make sure 
everyone dislikes it!)