"".dup is null

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 04 May 2009 09:46:57 -0400, Qian Xu <quian.xu at stud.tu-ilmenau.de>  
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> The following code will throw an exception:
>   char[] s;
>   assert( s.dup  is null); // OK
>   assert("".dup !is null); // FAILED
>
> "".dup is expectly also an empty string.
> Is this a compiler bug?
>

I think you might have a bug?

"".dup is the same as s.dup, not sure why you would expect it to be  
not-null.

-Steve