What!!! true and false not identifiers?

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From: Andrew Fitzgibbon
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 09:29

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I don't believe it!  true and false are keywords, at least according to
g++, which gets a parse error on this code.

       f() {
         int true = 0; // parse error
       }

Why?

A.

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