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In <4135i2$744@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>, clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) writes:
>They are language keywords, and are not interpreted by the preprocessor.
>Just as you do not have 'int', 'char', or 'double' in the preprocessor,
>you do not have 'bool' either. 'true' and 'false' are not aliases for 1
>and 0, they are literals of type bool.
>
>There are no types in the preprocessor; everything is a long integer.  

Steve, 'int', 'char', 'double' and 'bool' are types and quite properly
the preprocessor knows nothing about them.

However, '0', '1', 'true' and 'false' are NOT types, they are literals and
therefore SHOULD be recognized by the preprocessor.  It would be very
annoying to have the committee fix the "boolean" problem -- and then
make us do the same thing all over again for the preprocessor.


Michael Lee Finney


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