Re: Silently converting to empty string, zero, or therelike would eventually return garbage for harder to debug reasons. It's never been a problem with strings

Re: Silently converting to empty string, zero, or therelike would eventually return garbage for harder to debug reasons. It's never been a problem with strings in my many decades of experience, unless somebody does something which I consider poor system engineering. Nearby I invited a solid use-case illustrating a real string need.