From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-04-11T23:00:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Smalltalk's favorite Boolean method

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Berger, Daniel wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: list-bounce@example.com
>> [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

or even

   1 == 2 ?
     puts('true'):
     puts('false')

lean.  mean.  ;-)

-a
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