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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Spouses even though no marriage shown?
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 07:58:23 -0700
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On or about 07/06/04 04:34 a carrier pigeon from Darrell Martin delivered:

>What is a "flag"? Not just in TMG, in any program?

At the most strict meaning, in programming -- a bivalued variable
(boolean, T/F, Y/N) typically used to select between two branches of logic.
At a looser definition, a variable with a limited, pre-defined set of
values (which permits a multiway branch). I don't know if the use of the
word "flag" derives from clerical usage -- imagine a filing cabinet with
colored "post-it" strips (flags) sticking up from the files: black:dead,
green:living; blue:male, pink:female (stereotype, I know). You can quickly
select files without really looking at the data.

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