On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 12:25:45 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
String literals can implicitly convert to const(char)* or immutable(char)*. Neat. It doesn't appear to apply to array literals in general though...
I believe this is a special case specifically for strings added for convenience when interfacing with C. Walter has said that he is strongly against arrays decaying to points a la C, and D generally does not support it save for this special case.