"dangling else" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "dangling elses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Programming",
          "orig": "en:Programming",
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      "glosses": [
        "A potential ambiguity in a programming language that occurs when an else clause can be associated with either a nested conditional or with the clause that encloses the nested conditional."
      ],
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          "ambiguity",
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        ],
        [
          "programming language",
          "programming language"
        ],
        [
          "else",
          "else"
        ],
        [
          "nested",
          "nested"
        ],
        [
          "conditional",
          "conditional"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(programming) A potential ambiguity in a programming language that occurs when an else clause can be associated with either a nested conditional or with the clause that encloses the nested conditional."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "programming",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dangling else"
}

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    {
      "form": "dangling elses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "dangling else (plural dangling elses)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English lemmas",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A potential ambiguity in a programming language that occurs when an else clause can be associated with either a nested conditional or with the clause that encloses the nested conditional."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "ambiguity",
          "ambiguity"
        ],
        [
          "programming language",
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        ],
        [
          "else",
          "else"
        ],
        [
          "nested",
          "nested"
        ],
        [
          "conditional",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(programming) A potential ambiguity in a programming language that occurs when an else clause can be associated with either a nested conditional or with the clause that encloses the nested conditional."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "programming",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dangling else"
}