Why does the compiler choose bool over string for implicit typecast of L“”?

Question

Having recently introduced an overload of a method the application started to fail. Finally tracking it down, the new method is being called where I did not expect it to be.

Answer 1

Since bool is a built-in type, the conversion from wchar_t to bool is preferred. I would say that the simplest solution is to add an overload that takes a wchar_t array and cast explicitly in there:

setValue( const std::wstring& name, const wchar_t s[] )
{
     setValue(name, wstring(s));
}