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The spec talks about "empty string" and other languages like C# return a zero length string and not null. This is useful because when moving from proto2's "required string" to a proto3's plain string we will be guaranteed that we never get a null pointer. The tradeoff is adding a special case to the library but avoiding a lot of null checks in the calling code. The current code is already special casing "" in pack_string.