wrong function being picked

Question

I was trying to clean up some code that uses char* with std::string and ran into a problem that is illustrated by the following code.

Answer 1

One simple fix would be to change the bool to int - there is an implicit conversion from a pointer to bool, but not to int. bool to int is not a problem, so the existing code that passes bools will continue to work.

Unfortunately this does impact the code readability a little by masking the parameter's intent.