From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-06-12T03:18:07+09:00
Subject: Re: each with else

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Thorsten M=FCller <thorsten@80beans.com>
wrote:

>
> Funny that you mention smalltalk. I don't know much about it, but
> remember to have read a discussion about it's pure oop and that you
> can handle even core language features like if/then/else like any
> other class.
> This would be an example where it would be handy to have it.
>

Although it's true that you can define additional control flow in Smalltalk
using methods and blocks is true, it's a bit of a myth that the basic
control flow is really implemented that way:

http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/articles/2008/05/21/what-would-you-miss-=
if-you-had-to-stop-using-ruby-and-go-back-to-smalltalk


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Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/

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