[bunderbunder]

It is, but it still has really good ergonomics for a procedural-first development style, and in many respects that still feels more natural in Python than a fully object-oriented style.

By contrast, Smalltalk is so deeply object-oriented that it doesn't technically even have an if statement, just instance methods in the boolean class.

[igouy]

And the vast majority of the time, we just pretend it's a weird syntax if-statement.

The practical importance is that we use the same tools to search for implementers and senders of #ifTrue: as we use to search for implementers and senders of any other method. (We use the same pencil to sketch that we use to write.)