In Java, you're supposed to use Boolean.valueOf whenever converting a string to a Boolean. The constructors are useless unless you for some reason need separate identities for Boolean objects.
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Janico Greifenberg <j...@jgre.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I encountered unexpected behavior of the 'if' form in clojure when using > instances of java.lang.Boolean as the condition. I wanted to convert > input strings to booleans and used the constructor of the Boolean class > with the string parameter. However, when I pass these values as a > condition to if, the true-branch always gets executed. For example: > > > (if (Boolean. "true") 1 2) > 1 > > (if (Boolean. "false") 1 2) > 1 > > It seems to me that this has to do with the identity of the objects, as > (Boolean. "false") is not identical (although equal) to the clojure > literal false. Is this behavior intentional or a bug? > > The problem does not occur when I use Boolean/parseBoolean which returns > a lower case boolean. > > So long > Janico > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
