Why implicit conversion of string literal to char[] does not works?

[John Colvin]

On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 09:11:44 UTC, Michal Minich wrote:
> Sorry for posting to announce.

In future please post these questions to digitalmars.D.learn

The reason you can't implicitly convert a string to a char[] is 
because string is an alias to immutable(char)[]

Therefore, you would be providing a mutable window to immutable 
data, which is disallowed unless you *explicitly* ask for it (see 
below).

You can explicitly cast string to char[], but it is undefined 
behaviour to modify the contents of the result (i.e. don't cast 
away immutable unless you absolutely have to and even then be 
very very careful).