[squeak-dev] Protocol extension proposal: Boolean>>asBit ?

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Mon Dec 7 01:37:29 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Igor" == Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> writes:

Igor> i have multiple places which look like:
Igor> value := xpression + (someThing isFoo ifTrue: [1] ifFalse:[0])

My puzzlement arises here.  Why?  Why are you taking a state, and a boolean,
and changing state for that?

What's the bigger problem you're solving, that leads you to believe that
false = 0 and true = 1?

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