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: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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
[email protected](5): Assertion failure
[1] https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#identity_expressions
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