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In article <417kfc$1q3@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> Steve Clamage writes:
>If true and false were introduced into the preprocessor, they would 
>have to be predefined to the preprocessor numbers 1 and 0. They would
>then be the only prefined literals in the preprocessor. Why would this
>be superior to just using 1 and 0 in your code, given that there are
>no types to begin with? That is, IMHO 'true' gives no advantage
>whatever over '1' in a preprocessor expression, since it cannot mean
>anything different from '1', and since it must iteract with expressions
>with integer (not boolean) values.

Also, if true and false were reduced to 1 and 0 by the preprocessor,
overloading on type bool would not be possible.  I thought that
overloading was a big reason that bool was added to the language in
the first place.

--steve

Steve Vinoski  vinoski@ch.hp.com        (508)436-5904
Distributed Object Computing Program    fax: (508)436-5122
Hewlett-Packard, Chelmsford, MA 01824

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