Special "else if" treatment - Why ???

There are people who perceives 'else if' construct as a single one, not as a
one-statement else branch of an enclosing if construct.
See for example Visual Basic's construct If - ElseIf - EndIf

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Hello,

In ReSharper there is an option "Special "else if" treatment for C#"
Can someone give me a qualified reason, why to prevent "else if"
statements ?

I guess you're speaking about the code formatter options, which don't have
anything to do to the parsing logic.

With special treatment, it's formatted into

if(…)
…
else if(…)
…

And without it things would look like this:
if(…)
…
else
{
if(…)
…
}

I believe there's also a preview in the options.

The first view is more “switch-case”ish in its look, which corresponds to
the nature of this construct.

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