From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2000-03-24T14:41:25+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:02120] Re: TRUE vs. true Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:02119] TRUE vs. true" on 00/03/23, Dave Thomas writes: |So... is there any difference at all between them programmatically, or |could I document TRUE as a synonym for true? No. Once upon a time, when `nil' was the only false value, there were convention to use TRUE/FALSE constant values for boolean. So they are mostly for backward compatibility. matz.