The more interesting question

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 16 May 2012 13:17:17 -0400, Gor Gyolchanyan  
<gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 May 2012 12:21:27 -0400, Gor Gyolchanyan <
>> gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> if("" != []) assert("".length != 0);
>>>
>>> Will this fail?
>>>
>>
>> No.  Ambiguities only come into play when you use 'is'.  I highly
>> recommend not using 'is' for arrays unless you really have a good  
>> reason,
>> since two slices can be 'equal' but 'point at different instances'.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> auto str = "abcabc";
>> assert(str[0..3] == str[3..$]); // pass
>> assert(str[0..3] is str[3..$]); // fail
>>
>> which is very counterintuitive.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>
> Doesn't assert("".length != 0) look extremely counter-intuitive?

That assert would always fail, if the if statement would ever succeed.  It  
doesn't look counter-intuitive, it looks like a bug!

You basically said:

if(0) assert("".length != 0);

-Steve