Get rid of bit and bit[] ?

[Oskar Linde]

James Dunne wrote:

> Can someone explain the vector<bool> problem?  I thought C++'s bool 
> resolved to an integer of the native word size of the machine.

It does, but the standard specifies (or at least used to specify) 
vector<bool> as a specialization that keeps a packed representation 
internally. This leads to many inconsistencies similar to bit[] in D.

I do not know what the C++ committee has since decided regarding this.

/Oskar