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Return a reference to the enabled status of this category&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balm&lowbar;category&period;h&gt;`

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isEnabledRaw() const;
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== Description

Return a _reference_ to a const value indicating the enabled status of this category, allowing downstream uses to minimize latency by avoiding indirection through abstracted interfaces, albeit at some risk of object&hyphen;lifetime violations&period; The returned reference must not be allowed to outlive this category object&period;

== Return Value

const reference to the enabled status of this category


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