PROPOSAL: Simplified StringBuffer/StringBuilder syntax (original) (raw)

Mark Thornton mthornton at optrak.co.uk
Tue Mar 31 06:09:27 PDT 2009

Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:

+ being overloaded to also mean string concatenation was a mistake in java 1.0*. Let's not enshrine it by making more of them.

Also, if '+' will call .append on any appendables, I guarantee you, the first thing some clown will create is this: public class BigInteger2 extends Number implements Appendable { //I'm a BigInteger that supports +! Oh - and I'm mutable too :/ } and most people who see it will immediately tell him that he is a clown. So I think peer pressure will ensure that we see very little of this use.

I agree that using + for string concatenation was unfortunate, but we can't change it now.

Mark

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