From: John Wilger <johnwilger@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T12:36:51+09:00
Subject: Re: If like smalltalk

On 11/30/05, Laza <lazax.com@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can define these methods in TrueClass and FalseClass so you don't
> polute the Object class.

I had thought about doing it that way, but then you could only use
that syntax on actual instances of TrueClass and FalseClass -- if
statements are quite often applied to arbitrary objects since, IIRC,
everything other than FalseClass and NilClass is the same as true for
that purpose.

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John Wilger
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