The Nullity Of strings and Its Meaning

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 08.07.2017 19:16, kdevel wrote:
> 
> I wonder if this distinction is meaningful

Not nearly as much as it would need to be to justify the current 
behavior. It's mostly a historical accident.

> and---if not---why it is
> exposed to the application programmer so prominently.

I don't think there is a good reason except backwards-compatibility.
Also see: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/4623
(This is the pull request that restored the bad behaviour after it had 
been fixed.)