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0 pointsdfox10y ago0 comments

That's the compiler part that optimizes the elegance away :). The interesting part is here [1], note that it will work without any support from the compiler.

[1] - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=smalltalk.git;a=blob;f... and http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=smalltalk.git;a=blob;f...

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aaron-santos10y ago

Much more straight forward. If I'm reading it correctly, True and False are subclasses of Boolean and each of which implements a complementary pair of ifTrue and ifFalse methods? Elegantly symmetric. :)

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