What's a bool?

a word bloods use, it's basically "Cool" with the "C" replaced by a "B"

aye them niggaz are bool as fuck

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Creating state, not memory.

before the memory is allocated to the program it's not part of the program's state

Yes, precisely.

But the amount of allocated memory is itself part of the program's state

Now that's an implementation detail. In many existing runtime systems no program can even reference the amount of allocated memory, and one has to use RTS commands to see it. That is, amount of allocated memory may be entirely external to program state, and such implementations are totally practicable and popular. Certainly there is no dogma that says any program ever written must have access to that information.