I was stunned and curious.  There's plenty of "false ifTrue:" code in Squeak 
4.2...  Did I miss something too ???  :)

 
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 From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 4:28:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 2.0 and ODBC
 

You're joking, right?

I mean, if this is a way of helping me understand code by "commenting 
it", I'd simply say Thanks, but no thanks!

If that's the way it's done in Smalltalk, I wonder where I have been the 
last 17 years. I haven't done this and I can't remember seeing this. And 
I've read and fixed quite some code in that time.
This is probably done in a Smalltalk environment that has no decent 
version control system, just to avoid losing code you could probably 
need again.
But I doubt anybody using Monticello or more advanced Smalltalk 
versioning solutions really needs such a dirty workaround.

But I cannot prove you wrong. At least that piece of code is 
functionally equivalent to a comment ;-)

So what you're saying is that I shouldn't worry about it. Okay, will do 
;-)))

Joachim


Am 24.06.13 22:13, schrieb Milan Mimica:
> On 24 June 2013 12:21, jtuchel <mailto:[email protected]>wrote:
>
>     false ifTrue:
>             [ self
>                 sqlSetEnvAttr: 200
>                 value: 2    "SQL_ATTR_ODBC_VERSION" ].
>
>     what does this false ifTrue: thing mean here?
>
>
> That's how you comment code in Smalltalk - becuase it doesn't support 
> nested comments.
>
>
> -- 
> Milan Mimica
> http://sparklet.sf.net

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