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From: Scott Meyers
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 20:23

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I'm told that one of the members of a struct declared in the Microsoft OLE
headers is called "bool".  This would seem to present a problem for MS,
because they'll have to change their header file (thus annoying their
customers) if they want to produce a compiler that supports bool.  Does
anybody know (1) how the MS representatives on the ANSI/ISO committee let
this get through, and (2) whether there are any plans to change the keyword
as a result?

Thanks,

Scott

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