"====================================================================== | | Boolean Method Definitions | | $Revision: 1.7.5$ | $Date: 2000/05/28 16:56:52$ | $Author: pb$ | ======================================================================" "====================================================================== | | Copyright 1988-92, 1994-95, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | Written by Steve Byrne. | | This file is part of the GNU Smalltalk class library. | | The GNU Smalltalk class library is free software; you can redistribute it | and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License | as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1, or (at | your option) any later version. | | The GNU Smalltalk class library is distributed in the hope that it will be | useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser | General Public License for more details. | | You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License | along with the GNU Smalltalk class library; see the file COPYING.LESSER. | If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite | 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. | ======================================================================" Object subclass: #Boolean instanceVariableNames: '' classVariableNames: '' poolDictionaries: '' category: 'Language-Data types' ! Boolean comment: 'I have two instances in the Smalltalk system: true and false. I provide methods that are conditional on boolean values, such as conditional execution and loops, and conditional testing, such as conditional and and conditional or. I should say that I appear to provide those operations; my subclasses True and False actually provide those operations.' ! !Boolean class methodsFor: 'testing'! isIdentity "Answer whether x = y implies x == y for instances of the receiver" ^true ! isImmediate "Answer whether, if x is an instance of the receiver, x copy == x" ^true ! ! !Boolean methodsFor: 'overriding'! shallowCopy ^self "We only have one instance" ! deepCopy ^self "it's about as deep as we need to get" ! ! !Boolean methodsFor: 'storing'! storeOn: aStream "Store on aStream some Smalltalk code which compiles to the receiver" self printOn: aStream "representation is the same" ! ! !Boolean methodsFor: 'C hacks'! asCBooleanValue self subclassResponsibility ! ! !Boolean methodsFor: 'basic'! ifTrue: trueBlock ifFalse: falseBlock self subclassResponsibility ! ifFalse: falseBlock ifTrue: trueBlock self subclassResponsibility ! ifTrue: trueBlock self subclassResponsibility ! ifFalse: falseBlock self subclassResponsibility ! not self subclassResponsibility ! & aBoolean self subclassResponsibility ! | aBoolean self subclassResponsibility ! eqv: aBoolean self subclassResponsibility ! xor: aBoolean self subclassResponsibility ! and: aBlock self subclassResponsibility ! or: aBlock self subclassResponsibility ! !