Implicit encoding conversion on string ~= int ?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, June 23, 2013 19:25:41 Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 23 June 2013 at 16:37:18 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> > I didn't know that, is this already in Bugzilla?
> 
> I don't know, but if it is, it is probably marked as won't fix
> because I'm pretty sure this has come up before, but it is
> actually by design because a char in C is considered an integral
> type too.

This is definitely by design. Walter is definitely in the camp that thinks that 
chars are integral types, so they follow all of the various integral 
conversion rules. In some cases this is nice. In others, it's bug-prone, but I 
think that we're stuck with it regardless of whether it's ultimately a good 
idea or not. I don't think that we even succeeded at coming close to 
convincing Walter that _bool_ isn't an integral type and shouldn't be treated 
as such (when it was discussed right before deconf), and that should be a far 
more clearcut case.

- Jonathan M Davis