[ajug-members] boolean best?

[Ben McEwen]

Unless you want a user to  input "tranny" you probably want to stick with a
boolean or enum, or get all OO on it and have some that returns
person.getSex() that returns Sex.MALE or Sex.FEMALE.

2008/12/12 521 <521 at ofig.org>

>  would boolean be best...:
>
> an object/class named Living...
>
> ?have a string gender ("male"/"female") OR have a boolean isMale or
> isFemale?
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> which is more efficient (better design/etc.)?
>
> barclay
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