What is "Narrowing"

[oahz]

Or what is "Narrowing Conversion"?

[Repeater]

You've got a number being stored in a whole lot of bytes, and then you're turning it into a number stored in a lot fewer bytes. The risk is losing precision, or just getting a completely different number altogether.

[oahz]

Well then how come this:

bool b = 7;

is ok.

But

bool b {7};

requires a narrowing conversion?

[Cubbi]

because narrowing conversions are permitted in copy-initialization and forbidden in list-initialization