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balloonian variable: n. [Commodore users; perh. a deliberate phonetic mangling of boolean variable?] Any variable that doesn't
actually hold or control state, but must nevertheless be declared, checked,
or set. A typical balloonian variable started out as a flag attached to
some environment feature that either became obsolete or was planned but
never implemented. Compatibility concerns (or politics attached to same)
may require that such a flag be treated as though it were
live.
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