C++ Bool Type			    Bob Walton, 7/16/96


C++ has added a new builtin type in recent years, the
`bool' type, whose value is either the constant `true'
or the constant `false'.  The words:

	bool	true	false

are thus new keywords of the C++ language, and cannot
be used in any other way except to denote the boolean
data type and the two constants that are its values.

The result type of relational operators is bool.  The
arguments to and results of logical operators (&&,
||, !) are of type bool.  Any numeric or address value
is converted to type bool by converting zeros to false
and non-zeros to true.  A value of type bool is
converted to an integer by converting false to 0 and
true to 1.  Both types of conversion may be implicit.