2008/11/19 Rick Gutleber:
>
> I know what you mean. I got hit several months ago by an insidious bug
> where, I'd accidently gotten some arguments in the wrong order or something
> similar and rather than complain that it couldn't cast a bool to the type it
> was expecting, g++ figured int was close enough, and called the constructor
> with 1 or 0. Frankly I cannot imagine why; bools are not numbers. That's
> the whole reason the type exists. I'm pretty sure the Microsoft compiler
> didn't do this sort of thing.
Then it's non-conforming. bool converts to int, just like int converts
to long. bools definitely are numbers, they are an arithmetic type
according to the standard.
Jon
