A reminder that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't the shortest horror story ever written, it's actually "Specifies a tri-state Boolean value" written by the esteemed author Microsoft .NET Documentation.

Context: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.core.msotristate

Note that there are actually 5 values, not three. Also True is -1, and the value that equals 1 isn't supported.

MsoTriState Enum (Microsoft.Office.Core)

Specifies a tri-state Boolean value.

@mdiluz there's only two "supported" values so how is this even a tristate boolean

@ratsnakegames @mdiluz Everybody knows that the three real Boolean values are True, False, and FileNotFound.

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