Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Time to standardize "true" and "false" Keywords: true false C C++ Message-ID: <9973@alice.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 20:59:37 GMT References: <13730@well.UUCP> <9464@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <2142@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <6897@pixar.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ Lines: 11 The trouble at the root of all this discussion is that x == y is defined in C as being an int. This isn't going to change any time soon, and making C++ differ from C in such a fundamental respect seems unlikely to be capable of gaining as much as it would cost. -- --Andrew Koenig ark@europa.att.com