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

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On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 13:33:10 UTC, Michal Minich wrote:
> Ok I understand. What I did as a first thing when I get error 
> on "char[] x = "a" was "char x = cast(char[])"a", Which was 
> obviously incorrect - as the "a" was/should be placed in rom. 
> So if this expression is allays wrong - casting string literal 
> to mutable, then compiler should emit an error on this

explicit cast means a order from a programmer "type system, I 
know what I am doing, don't even try to bother me". You should 
never use casts to simply suppress errors (unless absolutely 
sure) in the very first place.