string <-> null/bool implicit conversion

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

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