[m-rev.] diff: use MR_Bool instead of bool.

[Fergus Henderson]

On 09-May-2001, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> compiler/ml_code_gen.m:
> 	Generate foreign language code using MR_Bool instead of bool.
> 	MC++ doesn't like us using "bool" (not if we want to use the
> 	namespace "bool" as well, anyway).  And we should use the
> 	typedef in mercury_types.h instead anyway.

That patch is fine.  But I'm not sure that it solves the problem with
namespace bool.   "bool" is a C++ keyword, so "namespace bool" is a
syntax error.

For CLS compliance, MC++ is supposed to have some way of escaping they
keyword, but I think last time I looked it didn't.

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