Is !! a safe way to convert to bool in C++?

Question

[This question is related to but not the same as this one.]

If I try to use values of certain types as boolean expressions, I get a warning. Rather than su

Answer 1

Comparison to 0 doesn't work so well. Which comes back -- why !! vs. ternary?

class foo { public: explicit operator bool () ; };

foo f;

auto a = f != 0; // invalid operands to binary expression ('foo' and 'int')
auto b = f ? true : false; // ok
auto c = !!f; // ok