Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Mon, 04 May 2009 09:46:57 -0400, Qian Xu <quian...@stud.tu-ilmenau.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> The following code will throw an exception:
>> char[] s;
>> assert( s.dup is null); // OK
>> assert("".dup !is null); // FAILED
>>
>> "".dup is expectly also an empty string.
>> Is this a compiler bug?
>>
>
> I think you might have a bug?
>
> "".dup is the same as s.dup, not sure why you would expect it to be
> not-null.
>
> -Steve
They are not the same. s is null. "" is an empty string. empty string and
null are definitely two thing.
