Is the safe-bool idiom obsolete in C++11?

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Yes. This is the example for problems with only having implicit user-defined conversions and explicit user-defined conversion operators were practically invented because of this problem and to replace all the safe-bool stuff with something a lot cleaner and more logical.

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