Why is StringBuilder.toString() returning new String instances for empty strings ? (original) (raw)

Jan Ohlsen jan.t.ohlsen at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 07:47:40 UTC 2013

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System.out.println( new StringBuilder().toString() == "" ); -> "false"

Any reason for not returning the "" instance?

public String toString() {
    return new String(value, 0, count);
}

-->

public String toString() {
    return (count > 0) ? new String(value, 0, count) : "";
}

?

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