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[ruby-talk:02120] Re: TRUE vs. true

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-24 05:41:25 UTC
List: ruby-talk #2120
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02119] TRUE vs. true"
    on 00/03/23, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> 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.

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