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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>balloonian variable</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="baggy-pantsing.html" title="baggy pantsing"/><link rel="next" href="bamf.html" title="bamf"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">balloonian variable</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baggy-pantsing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bamf.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="balloonian-variable"/><dt xmlns="" id="balloonian-variable"><b>balloonian variable</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Commodore users; perh. a deliberate phonetic mangling of <span class="firstterm">boolean variable</span>?] Any variable that doesn't
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actually hold or control state, but must nevertheless be declared, checked,
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or set. A typical balloonian variable started out as a flag attached to
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some environment feature that either became obsolete or was planned but
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never implemented. Compatibility concerns (or politics attached to same)
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may require that such a flag be treated as though it were
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