Why are there no objects for `true` and `false`?

Am Sa 23 Jul 2011 23:21:31 CEST, Stefan Langer schrieb:
> true and false are Boolean objects in scala
>
And why are they written in lower-case? They don't look as objects.

or, to put it slightly differently: false and true are treated basically the same way as 0 and 1. There are 8 non-object types on the JVM which receive special treatment, so the Java interop argument equally applies to all of them.

On Jul 23, 2011, at 23:21 , Stefan Langer wrote:

> true and false are Boolean objects in scala
>
> 2011/7/23 Antoras :
>> I don't understand why there currently are no objects for both keywords
>> `true` and `false`. Because of Java interoperability I understand why `null`
>> could not be deleted, but I can't see a reason for the Boolean values. If
>> there are objects like `True` and `False`, they could be transformed to the
>> primitive ones by the compiler. And if one wants to call a method on the
>> Boolean objects the compiler could create a wrapper.
>>
>> Is there a special reason why this break in the object system of Scala is
>> suffered or is this up to now unimplemented behavior?
>>
>> Antoras
>>