Saving booleans as strings in save games - why?

[RumbleMonk]

I noticed that the devs are using strings for booleans in the Match3 example when saving things to the save game. Is this for a reason, generally speaking I mean as opposed to how this example was made? Is there generally a reason to do so?

As an example the game instance has a string 'SaveString_PurchasedTheme' which has a boolean converted right into that string.. this could've been done to keep all vars the same type for simplicity, or maybe it's easier to read somehow?

Thanks for any clarification.

[RumbleMonk]

Hmm.. I think it's because the C++ function wants a field name as a string to figure out what to save out.. going to leave this thread here anyway in case there would be other reasons. Cheers.