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"How many options fit into a boolean?" Five or two, according* to Microsoft.

> MsoTrioState is "a tri-state Boolean value". it has five possible values. only two of them are supported.

*) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/dotnet/api/microsoft.offic...

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Funnily enough that was also my first idea upon reading the headline.

So let's remember: some programmer, somewhere, is right now thinking about building a tri-state boolean because they think it fits their current problem perfectly fine. And they are always wrong.

I've implemented trits a bunch of times and have never regretted it.

How you get 5 possible values into a tri state Boolean is beyond me though.

That is... amazing.

I think my favourite part is the fact that '1' isn't even one of the supported values.

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