In article <2512@swuts.sbc.com>, sg3235@sw1sta.sbc.com (Stephen Gevers) writes:
|>
|> I am going to open a can of worms here: When I first used C++, I thought that
|> C++ would differentiate between two typedefs.  I was disappointed when I found
|> that it wouldn't work.  It would be nice if there existed a keyword that would
|> actually become a new type (sort of like typedef). ...

There is -- 'class'.

for instance:

class bool {
    public:
 operator int();
 enum {false, true};
 ...
    private:
 int val;
    };

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