From 3e7aaa70878d6eda0dfb2737243efae6daa6e26c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominik Picheta <dominikpicheta@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 23:18:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #8716. (#8717)

---
 lib/pure/json.nim | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/pure/json.nim b/lib/pure/json.nim
index 69ffb1796f..3599667a86 100644
--- a/lib/pure/json.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/json.nim
@@ -256,7 +256,6 @@ proc add*(obj: JsonNode, key: string, val: JsonNode) =
 proc `%`*(s: string): JsonNode =
   ## Generic constructor for JSON data. Creates a new `JString JsonNode`.
   new(result)
-  if s.isNil: return
   result.kind = JString
   result.str = s