From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-02-09T22:24:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Your own if/else

On 2/9/08, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:
> Actually, I find the Smalltalk way a little more elegant. The booleans
> have true:, false:, and true:false: methods; each of the parameters
> takes a block:
>
>     x > 3 true: [ 1 + 1 ] false [ 0 ]
>
> (If I recall correctly.)

    x > 3 ifTrue:[1 + 1] ifFalse:[0]

However, most Smalltalk implementations cheat and the compiler turns
this into test and branch bytecodes rather than sending the
ifTrue:ifFalse: message


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