"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1988 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

"{ Package: 'stx:libbasic' }"

Boolean subclass:#False

	instanceVariableNames:''

	classVariableNames:''

	poolDictionaries:''

	category:'Kernel-Objects'

!

!False class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1988 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

!

documentation

"

    False has only one instance, false, representing logical falsehood.

    Some methods are implemented here and in True, instead of the common

    superclass Boolean. This has the advantage, that no truth-value checks 

    are needed, but instead the thruth check is done in the method lookup.

    However, remember that some messages to booleans are inline coded in

    the compilers (both interpreted and machine code). Therefore redefinition

    of some methods here will not have any effect on compiled code.

    (redefining ifTrue: to something else will probably crash the smalltalk

     world anyway ...)

    [see also:]

        True

    [author:]

        Claus Gittinger

"

! !

!False methodsFor:'binary storage'!

storeBinaryOn: stream manager: manager

    "store a binary representation of the receiver on stream;

     redefined, since false is stored with a special type-code"

    stream nextPut: manager codeForFalse

! !

!False methodsFor:'conditional evaluation'!

and:aBlock

    "evaluate aBlock if the receiver is true.

     (since the receiver is false return false).

     Notice:

	This method is open coded (inlined) by the compiler(s)

	- redefining it may not work as expected."

    ^ self

!

ifFalse:aBlock

    "return the value of evaluating aBlock if the receiver is false.

     (since the receiver is known to be false always evaluate)

     Notice:

	This method is open coded (inlined) by the compiler(s)

	- redefining it may not work as expected."

    ^ aBlock value

!

ifFalse:falseBlock ifTrue:trueBlock

    "return the value of evaluating falseBlock (since the receiver is false)

     Notice:

	This method is open coded (inlined) by the compiler(s)

	- redefining it may not work as expected."

    ^ falseBlock value

!

ifTrue:aBlock

    "return the false alternative, nil (since the receiver is false)

     Notice:

	This method is open coded (inlined) by the compiler(s)

	- redefining it may not work as expected."

    ^ nil

!

ifTrue:trueBlock ifFalse:falseBlock

    "return the value of evaluating falseBlock (since the receiver is false)

     Notice:

	This method is open coded (inlined) by the compiler(s)

	- redefining it may not work as expected."

    ^ falseBlock value

!

or:aBlock

    "evaluate aBlock if the receiver is false.

     (since the receiver is false return the value of evaluating aBlock).

     Notice:

	This method is open coded (inlined) by the compiler(s)

	- redefining it may not work as expected."

    ^ aBlock value

! !

!False methodsFor:'logical operations'!

& aBoolean

    "return true, if both the receiver and the argument are true

     (since the receiver is false, return false)

     Notice: 

         as this is a binary message, the argument is always evaluated. 

         It might be better to use and:[...], which does not evaluate

         the argument if the receiver is already false."

    ^ false

!

eqv:aBoolean

    "return true, if the receiver and the argument are the same truth value

     (since the receiver is false, return true if the argument is also false)"

    ^ aBoolean not

!

not

    "return true, if the receiver is false, false otherwise

     (since the receiver is false, return true).

     Notice:

	This method is open coded (inlined) by the compiler(s)

	- redefining it may not work as expected."

    ^ true

!

xor:aBoolean

    "return true, if the receiver and the argument are different truth values

     (since the receiver is false, return true, if the armument is not false)"

    ^ aBoolean

!

| aBoolean

    "return true, if either the receiver or the argument is true

     (since the receiver is false, return the argument).

     Notice: 

         as this is a binary message, the argument is always evaluated. 

         It might be better to use or:[...], which does not evaluate

         the argument if the receiver is already true."

    ^ aBoolean

! !

!False methodsFor:'printing & storing'!

printString

    "return character sequence representing the receiver"

    ^ 'false'

! !

!False class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version

^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/False.st,v 1.19 2002-11-26 15:48:39 cg Exp $'

! !