String literal converted to char*. Doc bug?

[Jesse Phililps]

simendsjo Wrote:

> The documentation for array says
> > (...), and a string literal can be implicitly cast to a char*
> 
> But this fails
> char* a = "a"; // cannot implicitly convert expression "a" of type
> string to char*
> 
> This works:
> char* a = cast(char*)"a";
> 
> Is the documentation a bit out of date, is this a bug, or is it only
> correct in some cases?

I think the documentation is out of date. Untested:

const(char)* a = "a";