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silas poulson wrote:
> Bakul Shah wrote:
>> Use of "flag" for this purpose seems strange. "option" makes more sense
> I always took it to be a semi descriptive joke, like =E2=80=9Cmouse=E2=80=
=9D, with the=20
> sort of flag you wave.

At this point we should recall the quote "cat came back from Berkeley
waving flags", attributed to Rob Pike.