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Matt Austern (matt@cyclops5.berkeley.edu) wrote:

> The argument for bool is a very pragmatic one: users and library
> vendors were defining boolean types themselves, and they were all
> doing it slightly differently.

And worse, by doing this, you'd end up with collisions when you included
files from different packages together, so each library vendor would have
to cook up elaborate schemes to protect the various bool definitions from
each other (XtBool, SoBool, VkBool, etc. etc.)

This is the strongest argument for putting a universally used type into
the language itself..
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