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From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-03-12 17:28:11


Rainer Deyke 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.

https://twitter.com/RachelTrue/status/1368004197166108676


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