From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-08-08T22:53:48+09:00
Subject: Boolean class update?


As per the quote below, is Boolean still on the agenda?  I accept that it may
not be very useful, but it's at least a little bit useful, and it just seems so
strange not to have it!

I'd also (primarily?) like a function Boolean(x) -> true or false.


<ruby-talk:15909>
|> Is there any special reason why TrueClass and FalseClass are direct
|> subclasses of Object?  I stumbled across this (IMHO problem) when I

|See ToDo:
|
|* introduce Boolean class; super of TrueClass, FalseClass

But I'm not sure how useful it is in the dynamic typed language like
Ruby where everything except `false' and `nil' is considered as true.
The instance of TrueClass - `true' - is merely a representative value
of trues.

[Matz]

</ruby-talk:15909>


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Gavin Sinclair                                       Software Engineer
Sydney, Australia                            Soyabean Software Pty Ltd