From: Ruby Rabbit <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2009-01-14T23:07:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Why do true and false have separate classes

Jason Roelofs wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Ruby Rabbit <sentinel.2001@gmx.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Just wondered what the thought behind this was?
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>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>
>>
> 
> It's only the core philosophy of Ruby: You have objects send messages
> to those objects.
> If there weren't a TrueClass and FalseClass, what else would true and 
> false be?
> 
> Jason

I would assume one class named like "Boolean".

TAke for example numbers -- there is only one Fixnum class which can 
have many values. Similarly i would assume one Boolean class with values 
true and false.
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