From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-04-11T22:46:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Smalltalk's favorite Boolean method

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> [mailto:list-bounce@example.com] On Behalf Of Ernest Micklei
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:13 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Smalltalk's favorite Boolean method
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> For a long time I have been programming Smalltalk.
> Recently, Ruby "got me" and I was wondering how the
> famous ifTrue:ifFalse: could be added to the System.
> 
> 1 = 2
>   ifTrue:
>    [Transcript show: "true!" ]
>   ifFalse:
>    [Transcript show: "false!"]

How is this effectively different than:

if 1 == 2
   puts "true!"
else
   puts "false!"
end

???

Dan