Re: Endorsement, review manager sought for Boost.Mysql

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.

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