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- From: "Nathan Myers, http://www.cantrip.org/" <ncm@cantrip.org>
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: bool
- Date: 06 Feb 1996 19:19:01 PST
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- Originator: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
-
- Scott Meyers wrote:
- > I'm told that one of the members of a struct declared in the Microsoft OLE
- > headers is called "bool". This would seem to present a problem for MS,
- > because they'll have to change their header file (thus annoying their
- > customers) if they want to produce a compiler that supports bool. Does
- > anybody know (1) how the MS representatives on the ANSI/ISO committee let
- > this get through, and (2) whether there are any plans to change the keyword
- > as a result?
-
- This is flame bait, I assume. MS may be big, but they don't have
- veto power over the ISO. The X Window System headers commonly (used to)
- have a declaration with a variable named "new". People dealt with it
- in their various ways, and lately the header is different.
-
- There are no plans to change the keyword published in any issues list
- I have seen. I would place the odds of a change there between about
- zero and epsilon.
-
- Nathan Myers
- ncm@cantrip.org
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