string <-> null/bool implicit conversion

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/20/2015 07:32 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 17:01:07 UTC, anonymous wrote:
>> A compiler change disallowing such use of arrays was done and then
>> reverted. See <https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4733>. I
>> haven't followed things closely enough to give you a good summary.
>
> Basically, almost everyone wanted the change, but it broke some of
> Andrei and Vladamir's code, because they were actually relying on the
> current behavior (which most everyone thinks is error-prone), and that
> convinced Walter that it wasn't worth the code breakage. So, it was
> reverted.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I.e. this has been dealt with extremely poorly.