digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 17623] New: Unexpected failure of an assertion on empty strings
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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17623 Issue ID: 17623 Summary: Unexpected failure of an assertion on empty strings Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: kdevel vogtner.de According to the documentation [1]: "For static and dynamic arrays, identity is defined as referring to the same array elements and the same number of elements." this code $ cat stringidentity.d void main () { string s = null; string t = ""; assert (s is t); } shall pass but the assertion fails $ ./stringidentity core.exception.AssertError stringidentity.d(5): Assertion failure [1] https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#identity_expressions --
Jul 08 2017