Eduardo: This is due to the weirdness in Java, and Java's own documentation recommends against using the Boolean class constructor. See the discussion at this link for more details:
http://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/if Andy On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Eduardo Aquiles Affonso Radanovitsck < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > we stepped into this on my team and we couldn't figure it out why the > different behaviour of the first line. Could someone with deeper knowledge > of the language explain us? > > (if (Boolean. false) 1 2) => 1 > (if false 1 2) => 2 > (if (Boolean/FALSE) 1 2) => 2 > (if (= false (Boolean. false)) > > 1 2) => > > > 1 > > > > > > > *--* > *Eduardo Aquiles Radanovitsck* > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
