Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: portability; bit* Message-ID: <7003@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 16:44:52 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7003 Posted: Fri Jan 4 16:44:52 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 00:48:26 EST References: <2667@dartvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 7 I would love a bit data type for use as Booleans, especially in Boolean matrices. I don't see how this could be done without adding another keyword to the language, and in this case it would certainly conflist with variable/macro names widely used in existing code.