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Re: Delegate

Donald E. Eastlake 3rd allegedly said:
> 
> Let me be extremely crass and suggest, that if it is at all a close 
> question, you should clearly go for an integer.  Why?  Because there may 
> be some real use in managability of long chains and to avoid other 
> systems boasting of having a simple feature you are "missing".  People 
> who want a boolean can use the field to get that effetc.
> 
> Donald

While there may be some use in long chains, I can't think of any at 
all.  In fact, the semantics of this flag sees rather orthogonal to 
chains...perhaps you could come up with an example?

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