Today's genuinely cursed knowledge: in C++, a vector of bools is a valid datatype.

"Myr, doesn't that just compile to a bitfield?"

Nope; it compiles to exactly what it suggests on the tin. A vector containing exclusively booleans

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@synthcryptid i misread this while scrolling past as a vector of boobs
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@Felthry

Technically, all breast-having creatures have a vector of breasts! Breast count can very easily be defined as a one-dimensional array of an arbitrary number of breasts, after all!

@synthcryptid @Felthry Unfortunately, most humans can only fit two boob bools in the upper chest address.

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