Re: Absense of bool

AommiK wrote:
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OK. Some of you might refer to C99 and its _Bool (what's up with the
uppercase 'B' anyway?) and the header you can include (apparently) to

The committee chose a name that is reserved to the implementation for ALL uses, in order to avoid breaking any code that currently defined 'bool' with a conflicting meaning. They couldn't use _bool, either, because that name is reserved only " for use as identifiers with file scope in both the ordinary and tag name spaces."
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