Peculiar functionality

Mike Stump mrs@wrs.com
Wed Jun 2 17:52:00 GMT 1999


> From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
> Date: Tue, 18 May 99 17:44:53 PDT

> > 1) The new operators "or" "and" "not" (etc), described on
> > Stroustrup C++PL 3rd ed. p. 829 appear to not exist in egcs, or to
> > be turned off by default.

> These are enabled by the flag -foperator-names, or -ansi.  The reason for
> not making them the default is that too much old C++ code breaks.

We might want to experiement more with them on after 2.95, and before
3.0.


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