From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-04-11T22:51:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Smalltalk's favorite Boolean method

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> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:46 AM
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> Subject: Re: Smalltalk's favorite Boolean method
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> > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:13 AM
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> > Subject: Smalltalk's favorite Boolean method
> >=20
> >=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > 1 =3D 2
> >   ifTrue:
> >    [Transcript show: "true!" ]
> >   ifFalse:
> >    [Transcript show: "false!"]
> 
> How is this effectively different than:
> 
> if 1 =3D=3D 2
>    puts "true!"
> else
>    puts "false!"
> end
> 
> ???
> 
> Dan

What the heck?  How did this get so mangled?

Dan