bug? alias this <-> opDispatch interaction

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, November 10, 2013 08:43:40 Meta wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 05:51:11 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
> 
> wrote:
> > Actually, "" isn't null. They're equal, but they aren't the
> > same. [] and null
> > are the same, but "" isn't the same, because it's a string
> > literal, and string
> > literals have a byte with '\0' one past their end so that they
> > can be passed
> > directly to C functions.
> 
> I didn't know that. How long has this been the case?

Pretty much as long as D has existed AFAIK. If there was ever a time that it 
wasn't the case, it was before D hit 1.0.

- Jonathan M Davis