RFC: bool operators for some classes

[Carsten Pfeiffer]

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On Friday 03 January 2003 02:04, Malte Starostik wrote:

> If those classes provided a boolean conversion, the above could be written
> more tersely:
>
> if ( KFileMetaInfoItem artist = metaInfo.item( KFileMimeTypeInfo::Author ) )
[...]
> which ain't only shorter but also scopes those variables more
> appropriately. So I'd like to suggest the addition of

I for one don't like boolean operators on classes very much because they're 
not intuitive to use or understand (what if a KFileMetaInfo object is NOT? :)

What's wrong with
if ( (KFileMetaInfoItem artist = 
      metaInfo.item( KFileMimeTypeInfo::Author ) ).isValid() )

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer
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