Julia: parse(Bool,"0") doesn't work

[favba]

A common usage of parse (at least for me) is for reading configuration files.
For boolean flags we can encounter either a "true" string or a "1" (or "false" / "0").
But parsing of AbstractString to Bool with numeric text doesn't work (it works with Chars '0' and '1').

julia> a = split("test: 0")
2-element Array{SubString{String},1}:
 "test:"
 "0"

julia> parse(Bool,a[2])
ERROR: ArgumentError: invalid Bool representation: "0"
Stacktrace:
 [1] macro expansion at ./gcutils.jl:88 [inlined]
 [2] tryparse_internal(::Type{Bool}, ::SubString{String}, ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Bool) at ./parse.jl:188
 [3] #parse#333(::Nothing, ::Function, ::Type{Bool}, ::SubString{String}) at ./parse.jl:225
 [4] parse(::Type{Bool}, ::SubString{String}) at ./parse.jl:225
 [5] top-level scope at none:0

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.0.1
Commit 0d713926f8 (2018-09-29 19:05 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5287U CPU @ 2.90GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.0 (ORCJIT, broadwell)
Environment:
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 2

It is not difficult to work around this, but wouldn't it make sense to allow parsing of "0" and "1" (of any AbstractString type) to Bool?

[StefanKarpinski]

Seems reasonable to me given that we have Bool <: Integer that one should be able to parse integer syntax for booleans.