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- From: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 18:10:42 GMT
- Organization: Borland International
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- In article <312FDB27.4B83@inav.net>, rainbow@inav.net says...
- >
- >Ray Toal wrote:
- >>
- >> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote:
- >>
- >> >(4) C++ in particular has been changing very rapidly. It seems as if
- every
- >> > time I turn around there is a new keyword.
- >
- >What is the status of the plain/ordinary/but very noticably forgotten
- boolean?
- >
- >It seems that the biggest difficutly that run into is that everybody
- needs/wants to
- >declare a new version (and they are not all compatible!). Because C/C++ were
- never
- >polite enough to provide it to begin with (0 or non-zero is hardly a good
- substitute)
- >we end up either creating the (ITEM, NON_ITEM) form, create yet another
- version
- >(my latest is BooleaN, { FalsE, TruE } ). I think I remember something about
- >BOOL in one of the C or C++ stds. Which compilers use it? (Borland does
- not,
- >at least thru 4.0).
- >
- >As you can tell from the tone of this post, I would be much happier to have a
- language
- >that provides a few comforts and niceties, i.e., Ada, but I haven't yet been
- able to
- >convince my cohorts and managers to come along.
-
- BOOL is a Windowsism. It's a typedef for an int. C++ has a type bool, which is
- supported in BC++ 5.0.
- -- Pete
-
-