When did "and" become an operator in C++

Question

I have some code that looks like:

static const std::string and(" AND "); 

This causes an error in g++ like so:

Row.cpp:140: error: expected unqualified-id before '&&' token 

so after cursing the fool that defined "and" as &&, I added

#ifdef and #undef and #endif 

and now I get

Row.cpp:9:8: error: "and" cannot be used as a macro name as it is an operator in C++ 

Which leads to my question of WHEN did "and" become an operator in C++? I can't find anything that indicates it is, except of course this message from g++

Answer 1

From the C++03 standard, section 2.5:

2.5 Alternative tokens

Alternative token representations are provided for some operators and punctuators. In all respects of the language, each alternative token behaves the same, respectively, as its primary token, except for its spelling. The set of alternative tokens is defined in Table 2.

Table 2—alternative tokens

alternative primary    <%         {    %>         }    <:         [    :>         ]    %:         #    %:%:       ##    and        &&    bitor      |    or         ||    xor        ˆ    compl      ˜    bitand     &    and_eq     &=    or_eq      |=    xor_eq     ˆ=    not        !    not_eq     !=  

Answer 2

They've been there since C++ 98. They're listed in the §2.5/2 of the standard (either the 1998 or the 2003 edition). The alternate tokens include: and, or, xor, not, bitand, bitor, compl, and_eq, or_eq, xor_eq, not, not_eq.