> -----Original Message----- > From: ara.t.howard / noaa.gov [mailto:ara.t.howard / noaa.gov] > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:36 AM > To: ruby-talk ML > Subject: Re: TrueClass/FalseClass vs. Boolean <snip> Also, I like it for testing, when I want to test .kind_of? and ensure that it's either true or false. > > It's been proposed and rejected by Matz once already. > > i seem to recall this... link? wonder why he rejected... I originally proposed it on the old RCR site on rubygarden.org. I believe you could find it on http://www.rcrchive.net, but it appears to be down at the moment. I think one of the reasons for rejecting it was that redefining how true or false behaved would cause havoc with the regular expression engine. But I think mostly he just didn't see the need for a boolean class the ways things are now. Regards, Dan