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In article <NEWTNews.807452778.29822.Trebor@eagle.lute.qnet.com>,
Trebor A. Rude <trebor@en.ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>
>An alternitive that would allow both overloading and implicit type
>conversions is something like this:
>
>enum BOOLEAN { false, true };
>
>class bool {
>   BOOLEAN value;
>public:
>    // Put in type conversion, operators, etc.
>}
>
>Granted, it takes two identifiers, but I think it comes closest to
>implementing the type as the draft standard does (at least among
>what I've seen so far).

Yes but what does it do to overloading...

	void f(int);	// calls this one
	void f(bool);
	void f(BOOLEAN);

	f( x < 3 );

You really want your bool type to be exactly the type returned
by the relational operators.

					-- Dag Bruck

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