2 Mar
2024
2 Mar
'24
6:35 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 2, 2024, 11:24 AM Paul Winalski <paul.winalski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/1/24, Bakul Shah via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
wrote:
And the variables set were named Xflag.
Warner
Use of "flag" for this purpose seems strange. "option" makes more
sense.
I think the term "flag" for command line options comes from the way
that those options are typically implemented in code. The command
line options are usually used to set a boolean variable in the program
that can be tested to see if the option was present.
"Flag" as a synonym for a boolean variable in turn comes from the
ordinary English verb "to flag", meaning "to mark or identify"