Operator overloading, structs

[Leandro Lucarella]

bearophile, el 10 de junio a las 08:23 me escribiste:
> Don:
> > It's very important. If you allow implicit conversion to bool, all kinds 
> > of garbage will compile. You might as well abandon static typing.
> 
> Some half-backed ideas.
> opBool() can be called implicitly when it's required a truth value test, like in if(x), while(x || y), etc.
> So this produces a type error:
> bool b = x;

I just can't understand why someone would not want this conversion to work
without a cast. Can anyone explain to me?

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