I'll add to that - In what "normal langs" is this not a problem? What would a C or C++ programmer expect? Because my experience in those languages says "castin

I'll add to that - In what "normal langs" is this not a problem? What would a C or C++ programmer expect? Because my experience in those languages says "casting" is a meaningless way to understand what's going on. Perl doesn't have bareword true/falue values. Ruby doesn't use "casting", I think. That is, I think the idiomatic way to express this in Ruby is: >> !!true.to_s => true >> !!false.to_s => true