On Feb 15, 2000, Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:10:40AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Feb 12, 2000, Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > I think it's bad idea to check for bool and/or if __cplusplus is
>> > defined since some C compilers may actually accept them.
>>
>> I can believe `bool' could be supported by C compilers, but defining
>> __cplusplus to non-zero would be cheating too much. Do you have any
>> example of such a cheating compiler?
> Not really. I was making a pretty big assumption about the potential
> existence of a such a beast. :-)
I'd rather keep it simple, then. If someone ever introduces such a
cheating compiler, it's good that things break, so people will
eventually complain to the compiler vendor to get it fixed.
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