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Re: string concatenation operator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Fri May 19 16:37:26 1995
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 10:26:28 -0700
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi,
> a. Doesn't string1 :: string2 look too much like the C++ scope operator ?
> b. I think Java should use the Fortran string concatenation operator
> e.g. string1 // string2. Ha ha.
Right. That is exactly why we ended up using '+'. Everyone has
a different combination of special characters that make up the
obvious candidate for the string operator. Ours is '+' and I still
think it is a reasonable choice. Anyway, the discussion is a little
bit futile because it is too late to change (there are oodles of Java
code out there now).
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff (avh@eng.sun.com)
http://java.sun.com/people/avh/
Sun Microsystems Inc, M/S UPAL02-301,
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Tel: +1 415 473 7242, Fax: +1 415 473 7104
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