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I'm taking a course in Visual Basic 2010 and I'm trying to get a grasp on this new term called a flag. I kind of understand that it has something to do with a boolean condition. I don't quite understand what a flag is. I see references to it using the term flag. I understand it has something to do when a boolean, a condition triggers a flag. But what is the flag. How do you identify it? Can somebody give me an example.
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A Flag is a boolean variable that signals when some condition exists in a program. When a flag is set to true, it means some condition exists When a flag is set to false, it means some condition does not exist. if(score > 95) highscore = true; Here, highscore is a flag indicating that the score is above 95.
A boolean is a data type in the C Standard Library which can store true or false . Every non-zero value corresponds to true while 0 corresponds to false . The boolean works as it does in C++. However, if you don't include the header file stdbool. h , the program will not compile.
The Python Boolean type is one of Python's built-in data types. It's used to represent the truth value of an expression. For example, the expression 1 <= 2 is True , while the expression 0 == 1 is False .
A Boolean expression is a Java expression that returns a Boolean value: true or false . This is useful when we want to compare values to find answers.
In general, "Flag" is just another term for a true/false condition.
It may have more specific meanings in more specific contexts. For instance, a CPU may keep "arithmetic flags", each one indicating a true/false condition resulting from the previous arithmetic operation. For instance, if the previous operation was an "ADD", then the flags would indicate whether the result of the add was zero, less than zero, or greater than zero.
I believe the term comes from flags used to signal a go/no go condition, like, a railroad flagman indicating whether or not it is safe for the train to proceed.
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