string <-> null/bool implicit conversion

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 21 August 2015 at 13:54:04 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 17:32:24 UTC, 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,
>
> It broke a crapton of my code.
>
> Also, at least spell my name right please.

It broke lots of code but, does it have to? It could just be 
deprecated for one or two releases instead, and give you and 
other people that upgrade compiler to adjust, right?