In article <rfgCHqI8A.EGt@netcom.com>, rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes:
|> What follows is the complete list of C++ keywords (as of the end of the
|> recent X3J16/WG21 meeting in San Jose):
|>
|>  and
|>  and_eq
|>  bitand
|>  bitor
|>  compl
|>  not
|>  not_eq
|>  or
|>  or_eq
|>  xor
|>  xor_eq

O.K. I presume these are 'aliases' for some of the operators.
[For 'international' support???]

|>  const_cast
|>  dynamic_cast
|>  mutable
|>  reinterpret_cast
|>  static_cast
|>  typeid

But *what* are *these*, and *why*?


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In article <9312091737.AA02219@tdat.ElSegundoCA.NCR.COM> swf@tdat.ElSegundoCA.NCR.COM writes:
>In article <rfgCHqI8A.EGt@netcom.com>, rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes:
>|> What follows is the complete list of C++ keywords (as of the end of the
>|> recent X3J16/WG21 meeting in San Jose):

Hey!  I didn't give you permisson to repost the list!!  As a matter of
fact, I'm not even sure that *I* had permission to repost the list!  (It
may be copyrighted by AT&T for all I know.) (No smiley.)

>|>  and
>|>  and_eq
>|>  bitand
>|>  bitor
>|>  compl
>|>  not
>|>  not_eq
>|>  or
>|>  or_eq
>|>  xor
>|>  xor_eq
>
>O.K. I presume these are 'aliases' for some of the operators.
>[For 'international' support???]

Yes.  These are alises for operators.  No they are not for ``international''
support.  They are for people who have keyboards with broken shift keys. :-)

>|>  const_cast
>|>  dynamic_cast
>|>  mutable
>|>  reinterpret_cast
>|>  static_cast
>|>  typeid
>
>But *what* are *these*, and *why*?

Don't ask me.  I just work here. :-)

 "So mutable is really the prophecised anti-Const, yes?"
     -- Doug Schmidt

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