must the if statement in the following tutorial be nested?

[hsunteik]

in this tutorial series on creating a programming language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWAxiKdJF0c  (the first episode in the video tutorial series)

he uses nested if statement,but can i use many if elif else statement instead.(especially the lexer)

[Mekire]

If you could post the code in question here it would help a lot.

[hsunteik]

Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow because I am not at home now and my computer is at home.

[Yoriz]

At the point the elif checks tok to equal \ and then inside of that condition checks state to be 0 or 1
To not nest it could be replaced with two elif that check for tok and state at the same time.