weird empty string

[Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 13 May 2017 at 00:59:14 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 May 2017 at 00:36:55 UTC, mogu wrote:
>> ```d
>> if (null)
>>     "1".writeln;
>> if ("")
>>     "2".writeln;
>> if ("" == null)
>>     "3".writeln;
>> ```
>>
>> Output:
>> 2
>> 3
>>
>> How to understand this?
>
> Boolean conversion on an array works on array's pointer, not 
> it's length. So even though `"".length == 0`, `"".ptr != null`, 
> and so `cast(bool)"" == true`.

However

if ([])
     "1".writeln;

prints nothing.

So why does "" has non-null pointer while [] has null pointer? 
Looks inconsistent.