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In article <31753788 DOT 173327AC AT alcyone DOT com> Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com> writes:
>Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
>
>> false and true are reserved words in C++. (I'm just stating that without
>> knowing it definitely :-)
>
>No, they're not.

Yes, they are :-)

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 From: Chapter 2: Lexical conventions [lex]
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  2.9  Literals                                            [lex.literal]

1 There are several kinds of literals.6)
          literal:
                  integer-literal
                  character-literal
                  floating-literal
                  string-literal
                  boolean-literal
  _________________________
  6)  The  term  "literal"  generally  designates, in this International
  Standard, those tokens that are called "constants" in ISO C.


  2.9.5  Boolean literals                                     [lex.bool]
          boolean-literal:
                  false
                  true

1 The Boolean literals are the keywords false and true.   Such  literals
  have type bool and the given values.  They are not lvalues.

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See:  http://www.cygnus.com/~mrs/wp-draft/index.html
      http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/~cw/C++.wp-draft/index.html 
      http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/People/klamer/wp/index.html 

Pieter.