diff --git a/Source/Modules/lua.cxx b/Source/Modules/lua.cxx
index bb46c707c..06e9eca68 100644
--- a/Source/Modules/lua.cxx
+++ b/Source/Modules/lua.cxx
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ NEW LANGUAGE NOTE:END ************************************************/
     String *setName = 0;
     // checking whether it can be set to or not appears to be a very error prone issue
     // I refered to the Language::variableWrapper() to find this out
-    bool assignable=is_assignable(n);
+    bool assignable=is_assignable(n) ? true : false;
     SwigType *type = Getattr(n, "type");
     String *tm = Swig_typemap_lookup_new("globalin", n, iname, 0);
     if (!tm && SwigType_isarray(type))
diff --git a/Source/Modules/ruby.cxx b/Source/Modules/ruby.cxx
index 961fdeec1..84ad210cd 100644
--- a/Source/Modules/ruby.cxx
+++ b/Source/Modules/ruby.cxx
@@ -2958,8 +2958,8 @@ public:
     int status = SWIG_OK;
     int idx;
     bool ignored_method = GetFlag(n, "feature:ignore") ? true : false;
-    bool asvoid = bool( checkAttribute( n, "feature:numoutputs", "0") );
-    bool initstack = bool( checkAttribute( n, "feature:initstack", "1") );
+    bool asvoid = checkAttribute( n, "feature:numoutputs", "0") ? true : false;
+    bool initstack = checkAttribute( n, "feature:initstack", "1") ? true : false;
 
     if (Cmp(storage, "virtual") == 0) {
       if (Cmp(value, "0") == 0) {