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From: "Stuart Sierra" <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 23:34:49 -0500
Local: Sat, Jan 5 2008 11:34 pm
Subject: Re: Creating a PrintWriter: No matching ctor found
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 11:36 -0800, Rich Hickey wrote: Just my 2 cents: I like Ruby's "true", "false", and "nil" keywords. > I am considering > supplying constants that correspond to the values Boolean.TRUE and > Boolean.FALSE for use in _calling_ Java, but I won't change the nature > of conditional tests to also test for FALSE - it's a performance issue > I decided long ago. Ruby treats both "false" and "nil" as false in boolean expressions; anything else is considered true. It's very clear when you're returning a boolean value, but you still get the convenience of using nil in boolean expressions. Having true/false/nil map exactly to Java true/false/null (boxed if -Stuart You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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