true/false literal std question

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From: mfinney
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:50

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The draft standard introduces two new reserved identifiers -- "true" and "false"
(among others, of course).  These play the role of literals for the new bool type.

My question, is: are these new literals supported by the preprocessor?  The new
bool type is designed to replace the many variants of "boolean", "true" and
"false" found everywhere.  However many, if not most, of the existing
definitions can be used in preprocessor expressions.  If it is NOT possible to use
the new true/false literals in preprocessor expressions then they will have to
be duplicated just for preprocessing -- obviously not desirable.

Does anyone know the answer to this question?  Thanks.

Michael Lee Finney

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