From: Ruby Rabbit <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T04:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Why do true and false have separate classes

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> "David A. Black" <dblack@rubypal.com> writes:
> 
>> I know you know you don't need those parentheses. Is this a LISP
>> homage? :-)
> 
> We can say that yes.  I like the parentheses.  They help my editor to
> implement higher level editing commands (it becomes a structural
> editor).  It's also a way to remember that Ruby is just a lisp that
> has been Matzacred.  And a wonder why Ruby users don't use the true
> thing, Common Lisp.

"Matzacred" - rotfl.

I had heard that the true thing was Smalltalk.
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