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Clarify documentation for isTrue, isFalse #1574

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@nilbus nilbus commented Mar 22, 2014

BasicRubyObject.isTrue and .isFalse correspond to whether the RubyObject is truthy or falsy, not just whether or not it is an instance of TrueClass or FalseClass. This documentation change makes that clear.

I confirmed this by calling isTrue on a RubyString, which returned true.

nilbus added 2 commits March 22, 2014 12:02
`BasicRubyObject.isTrue` and `.isFalse` correspond to whether the RubyObject is
truthy or falsy, not just whether or not it is an instance of TrueClass or
FalseClass. This documentation change makes that clear.

I confirmed this by calling `isTrue` on a RubyString, which returned true.
Metric: rspec, google search result count for: `ruby "falsey"` and `ruby "falsy"`
enebo added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 1, 2014
Clarify documentation for isTrue, isFalse
@enebo enebo merged commit 1c357ce into jruby:master Apr 1, 2014
@enebo enebo added this to the JRuby 9000 milestone Apr 15, 2014
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