partial initialization of fixed size ("static") arrays

[Tejas]

On Saturday, 14 August 2021 at 14:04:47 UTC, kdevel wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 August 2021 at 13:01:13 UTC, frame wrote:
>> I would say case [...] 3 is not [a bug]. It's just the element 
>> type conversion and mismatched lengths of the ranges.
>
> ~~~
>    char [7] d7 = "x"; // okay
>
>    string s = "x";
>    char [7] c7 = s; // throws RangeError
> ~~~
>
> What justifies that the compiler behaves differently on two 
> terms ('s', '"x"') which are of equal size, type, length and 
> value?

They are not.

assert(string.sizeof != char.sizeof);