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>`ifTrue` and `else` are extension methods added to the `Boolean` type. You don't seem to understand what this discussion is about. Extension functions in Kotl
by gambler 8y ago
>`ifTrue` and `else` are extension methods added to the `Boolean` type.
You don't seem to understand what this discussion is about. Extension functions in Kotlin are statically dispatched, so while they are a nice feature, they are completely irrelevant here.
It's not about how your invocation code looks like. The important part is that at some point the code needs to make a decision whether to invoke "if" case or "else" case. Smalltalk achieves this by having two objects/classes (True and False) that handle the same message differently. The implementation of those objects does not have a hidden control flow statement. Your code would.