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- From: John Max Skaller <maxtal@suphys.physics.su.oz.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: bool
- Date: 09 Feb 1996 09:10:30 PST
- Organization: MAXTAL
- Approved: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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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?
-
- MS doesn't control the committee -- they have one straw vote on the
- joint ANSI/ISO committee, and one real one on the ANSI committee,
- which as one vote on WG21, and one in international votes -- although
- both ANSI and MS have influence extending beyond these formalities.
-
- There is no chance (IMHO) the keyword bool will be changed,
- at least 2 leading compilers already implement bool, and it is far
- too late in the standardisation process. Furthermore,
- bool will probably be added to C9X as well, in some form (possibly
- a macro or typedef).
-
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