For the full story, these objects and ifTrue: etc are special cases in the VM code.
For speed. Phil On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:32 PM, CodeDmitry <dimamakh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I realized it a bit before you posted but thanks for confirming. > > Boolean seems to indeed just be a "Dynamic Interface"; since Smalltalk does > not have "Java Interfaces"(nor want them for the same reason JavaScript > doesn't), the developers wanted to still have True and False be subclasses > of Booleans. > > In all honesty Boolean seems to be there purely for the "common sense" of > it, rather than need. Smalltalk is duck typed and has no need for > interfaces. If it's a Boolean, you know it has those methods so Boolean is > not actually useful for anything; True and False may as well just be > subclasses of Object. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/How- > does-Boolean-ifTrue-work-tp4920873p4920891.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >
