In the accompanying article, Improving code readability - Using alternative tokens for bitwise and logical operators, we show how you can use a set of macros to mimic the alternative tokens proposed for the C++ American National Standards Institute/International Standards Organization (ANSI/ISO) standard. If you're interested in keeping up with the changes to the C++ language, you can download the current version of the standardization committee's C++ Working Paper.
To get the latest version of the C++ Working Paper, you'll
need to use anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to download
the information from AT&T's FTP site. From an FTP prompt,
enter
open ftp.research.att.com
Once you've logged on, change the current directory by
entering
cd \dist\c++std\WP
(Enter this line exactly as it appears. FTP directory names are case-sensitive.)
In this directory, you'll find a description of the files (README), Adobe Acrobat versions of each file (PDF files), PostScript printer files (PS files), and a two-part version of the BODY.PDF file (BODY.PD1 and BODY.PD2). You can use the BODY.PD1 and BODY.PD2 files to copy the C++ Working Paper to floppy disks.
Before you can use the PD1 and PD2 files, you'll need to
recombine them using the following command:
copy /b body.pd1 + body.pd2 body.pdf
Unless you need to transfer these files to another computer, you can delete the PD1 and PD2 files when you finish combining them.
The Working Paper spans six files. They are:
Since the main document, the concordance, and the index are all
fairly large documents, you may want to print only the Table of
Contents file and then refer to the other documents electronically.
(By the way, if you don't have the Adobe Acrobat file reader,
you can download the latest runtime version from ftp.adobe.com,
the Adobe FTP site.)
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