The use of the word “else” bugged me enough that when I put together syntax for Kal (now defunct, but here’s a link https://github.com/rzimmerman/kal) I added “otherwise” as an alias. It’s interesting to see I’m nowhere near the first to come up with that!

Some example syntax:

    unless name is 'Steve'
      print 'Impostor!'
    otherwise
      print 'Steve'

“if” and “else” work, too. But I really did like the “unless” and “but” keywords.