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Return the sequence number that tracks rule‐set changes.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_categorymanager.h>`

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ruleSetSequenceNumber() const;
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== Description

Return the sequence number that tracks changes to the rule set Return the sequence number that tracks changes to the rule set.

maintained by this category manager. The value returned by this method is guaranteed to monotonically increase between calls before and after the rule set is changed, and is otherwise implementation defined.

== Return Value

monotonically increasing rule‐set change sequence number


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