Definitely some useful case for array to bool though - except the only one
was named in the first sincere email before you mentioned C compatibility
which is a misnomer for C++.

On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 2:53 PM sasho648 <sasho648_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Well I found it useful to not need to type explicit cast on pointer
> conversions which is a part of C but not of C++.
>
> Maybe someone finds array parameters useful in some corner case as well.
>
> But nobody will find comma expression used inside [ and ] useful for sure.
>
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 2:13 PM Alejandro Colomar via Std-Proposals <
> std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Linters can usually warn about such conversions. Try clang-tidy(1).
>>
>> And once you have guarantee that your code is fine, thanks to running
>> linters on your own code, why would you want to forbid it in the standard?
>> Maybe someone finds it useful in some corner case (likely to be in
>> C-compatible code).
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 10:40 sasho648 via Std-Proposals <
>> std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> int arr[2];
>>> bool test = arr;
>>> bool teststr = "string";
>>>
>>>
>>> Which I came across while having a function like this:
>>>
>>> void set_property(const char *name, const char *default_value);
>>> void set_property_bool(const char*name, bool default_value);
>>>
>>> Where I thought the bool one was expecting a string as second argument
>>> as well and so I wrote:
>>>
>>> set_property_bool("test", "true");
>>>
>>> Which compiled fine and even worked until I decided to change it to:
>>>
>>> set_property_bool("test", "false");
>>>
>>> In my opinion such a conversion holds no value - since it has only one
>>> outcome - and furthermore I think it's against C++ type safety - and even
>>> furthermore I think currently it's only purpose is obfuscation contests or
>>> creating hard to diagnose bugs as the case I've shown above.
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