From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: bool.h in C++
Date:	Tue, 02 Sep 1997 08:56:12 -0700
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eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com wrote:

> bool.h itself didn't do much. just #defined bool, true, false  as int,
> 1, 0
> respectively.

Note this doesn't quite adhere to how bool is supposed to work. 
According to the draft standard, numeric and pointers values can
implicitly be converted to bool, even if they are not zero or one.  So 

    bool b = 3;

means that b should get true (1), not 3.  Simple #defines won't do that.

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