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Scott Meyers wrote:
> 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?

This is flame bait, I assume.  MS may be big, but they don't have
veto power over the ISO.  The X Window System headers commonly (used to)
have a declaration with a variable named "new".  People dealt with it
in their various ways, and lately the header is different.

There are no plans to change the keyword published in any issues list
I have seen.  I would place the odds of a change there between about
zero and epsilon.

Nathan Myers
ncm@cantrip.org
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