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I'd like to write some Smalltalk code equivalent to the Java fragment:<br>
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boolean ok = false;<br>
while (!ok) {<br>
...<br>
ok = <condition>;<br>
}<br>
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So I try:<br>
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ok _ False.<br>
[ok] whileFalse: [.... ok _ <condition>.]<br>
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which fails. On the other hand:<br>
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ok _ 0.<br>
[ok > 0] whileFalse: [.... ok _ (<condition>) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ifTrue:[1">ifTrue:[1</a>]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ifFalse:[0">ifFalse:[0</a>]]<br>
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which works just fine. This is perverse; shouldn't the two fragments
have identical functionality?<br>
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I'm using the 3.4 image.<br>
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