Why doesn’t std::string provide implicit conversion to char*?

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From the C++ Programming Language 20.3.7 (emphasis mine):

Conversion to a C-style string could have been provided by an operator const char*() rather than c_str(). This would have provided the convenience of an implicit conversion at the cost of surprises in cases in which such a conversion was unexpected.

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