C++ use of bool

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Thu May 4 17:41:00 BST 2000


In message <B64pWHAzSYE5Ew+D at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> It turns out (I think), that |bool| was introduced as a keyword only in
> the 1998 version of the C++ standard. The previous (1991?) standard made
> no mention of it, although many pre-1998 implementations contained it.
> CFront is based on the earlier standard, and does not implement bool.

There is only one C++ standard, and that's the 1998 one. The only
thing before that is the ARM which isn't a proper international
standard but just a description of the original AT&T implementation.

Tom

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