Re: Endorsement, review manager sought for Boost.Mysql

From: Rainer Deyke (rdeyke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-03-10 18:24:59

On 10.03.21 16:34, Richard Hodges via Boost wrote:
> In almost all applications, "1", 1 and true all mean the same thing.

Absolutely not.  Strings are not, and must not be implicitly converted 
to, booleans.

"True" is a perfectly valid last name, as is "Null".  There are real 
people with these names.  Software that treats these names as a boolean 
value and no value respectively is broken.

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Rainer Deyke (rainerd_at_[hidden])