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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Time to standardize "true" and "false"
Keywords: true false C C++
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Date: 26 Sep 89 20:59:37 GMT
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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