if-elif statements break if there's no else

[jonbarron]

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Description

If you try to latexify a function that contains an if/elif statement, it will terminate with an error message of "LatexifySyntaxError: Multiple statements are not supported in If nodes." unless there is an else statement. This is awkward, because there are many things that someone would want to express with if/elif statements that look awkward when rendered using a else statement instead of an elif. Here's an example:

Reproduction

Here's that code:

@latexify.function(use_math_symbol=True)
def fn(x):
  if x < 0:
    return -1
  elif x == 0:
    return 0
  elif x > 0:
    return 1

fn

Expected behavior

I'd like to be able to do something like

but without that placeholder "else: return None" bit at the end, which is currently necessary.

[odashi]

I think this should be a part of fall-through supports. Related issue: #100

The current implementation expects that every if clause has a corresponding else, i.e., every condition should be dispatched to exactly one descendant of the if-elif-else tree. This would be natural in terms of math writing, but yeah it is also a bit frustrating in Python.