Entering the whileTrue: object at the st> prompt causes a parser error

Gary Highberger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.gnu.general
Message-ID <CAAWCt5zVsE53ZL__CeYSa8kb2jMxAN5BnKfyjFWqZ6md4UZupQ@mail.gmail.com>
ifTrue: works as expected, whileTrue: fails. Is this behavior known, expected?

st> (true) ifTrue: ['foobar']
'foobar'
st> (true) whileTrue: ['foobar']
Object: true error: did not understand #whileTrue:
MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254)
True(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #whileTrue: (SysExcept.st:1448)
UndefinedObject>>executeStatements (a String:1)
nil
st>
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