Came here to comment on that too...and was surprised how many replies you had where the fundamental whooshed right over all these skilled programmer’s heads. T

Came here to comment on that too...and was surprised how many replies you had where the fundamental whooshed right over all these skilled programmer’s heads. The shortcoming is failure to recognize your object has more than 2 states and the use of flags should be abandoned in favor of a state variable (or status bit vector, aka a state variable).