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Bool vs Booly - What's the difference?

bool | booly |

As nouns the difference between bool and booly

is that bool is a Boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false while booly is a company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars.

bool

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing, programming) A Boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.
  • * 2000 , Mark A DeLoura, Game programming gems
    • The base class BitArray acts just like a normal C++ array of bools , although you are of course free to interpret the bits as integers...
  • * 2000 , Herb Sutter, Exceptional C++
    • With an automatic conversion, bools will interfere with overload resolution...
  • * 2007 , Joseph C Rattz, Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008
    • Listing 7-11 shows an example where the initial data type is string, but I will obtain its value as a bool .

    Anagrams

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    booly

    English

    Alternative forms

    * boley * bolye * bouillie

    Noun

    (boolies)
  • (obsolete) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars.
  • (obsolete) A place in the mountain pastures enclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)