Re: Endorsement, review manager sought for Boost.Mysql

From: Ruben Perez (rubenperez038_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-03-12 17:08:45

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, 14:18 Rainer Deyke via Boost, <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> 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.
>

I agree, and this library will never do that - "True" is always considered
to be a string and does not convert to bool.

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> Rainer Deyke (rainerd_at_[hidden])
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