From -3724608923549250856 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,c6421e9689b6c205 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: How can I tell if my compiler supports the bool type? Date: 1996/06/17 Message-ID: <4q4tgb$duq@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 160724271 references: <4pnpmp$14oq@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> <31C2996F.73AE@millersystems.com> x-original-date: 18 Jun 1996 00:33:15 GMT organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne x-auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ newsgroups: comp.std.c++ originator: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com Terry Thorsen writes: >Shame on stl implementors for not at least capitalizing bool. Well, to be fair it wasn't the STL implementors (Stepanov and Lee et al) who added `bool'; although both STL and `bool' are part of draft standard C++, they were put there in quite separate proposals by different people. I believe the names `bool', `true', and `false' were chosen ahead of other names (such as BOOLEAN, Boolean, boolean, BOOL, Bool, TRUE, FALSE, and so forth) for two reasons: partly for consistency with other C and C++ keywords, which are all lowercase, but also because these names were (contrary to what you implied) in less frequent use than the alternatives. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles: Try just posting with your newsreader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu comp.std.c++ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern/std-c++/faq.html Moderation policy: http://reality.sgi.com/austern/std-c++/policy.html Comments? mailto:std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu ]