On Saturday, 14 August 2021 at 14:04:47 UTC, kdevel wrote:
~~~
char [7] d7 = "x"; // okay
string s = "x";
char [7] c7 = s; // throws RangeError
~~~
What justifies that the compiler behaves differently on two
terms ('s', '"x"') which are of equal size, type, length and
value?
Literals in D can have different types in different contexts. For
example:
```d
byte b = 16; // 16 is treated as a byte literal
int n = 16; // 16 is treated as an int literal
b = n; // Error: cannot convert int to byte
```
Similarly, the string literal `"x"` can be treated either as a
`string` (a dynamic array of `immutable(char)`) or as a static
array of `char`, depending on the type of variable it's assigned
to.
