<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div>I have to say that, to me, the “simplified” version looks quite unclear.<div><br></div><div>1. The standard teaching is that the arguments to <u>ifTrue</u>: et al. are always blocks, though it’s clear that the implementation uses <u>value</u> to evaluate blocks.</div><div><br></div><div>2. 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Mark Volkmann</font></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Object Computing, Inc.</font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> -- <br>Cuis-dev mailing list<br>Cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st<br>https://lists.cuis.st/mailman/listinfo/cuis-dev<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>