boolean

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I really mean it, do NOT read the end element if the boolean is true.

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  1. of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT

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  • Windows Azure also includes a simple, RESTful (and hence client-agnostic) storage structure for three specific types of data: blobs - which can store up to 50MB (currently) of unstructured data, subdivided into blocks for more effective recovery if an error should occur during transmission; tables - not in the relational database sense, but rather containers for entities with properties of standard data types like string, boolean, and datetime. —  MSDN Blogs
  • Knowing that the boolean is returned from mkdirs (), let us pass it as a parameter to our checkDir method. —  Pixel2Life.com: Latest 15 Tutorials
  • Once it has decided, a boolean is returned back to the CLR indicate its decision. —  MSDN Blogs
  • But that's OK … JavaScript supports the notion of "truthiness", meaning that objects other than true and false can be used where a boolean is expected. —  Relevance - Relevance Weblog
  • "The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit." —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
 

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