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Overloading of "+" for string concat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Hudson)
Tue May 16 20:52:15 1995
From: hudson@cc.gatech.edu (Scott Hudson)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 19:51:43 -0400 (EDT)
I ran across an interesting feature/bug last night which makes me
wonder if overloading "+" as string concatenation is such a good idea.
The following code:
int i = 1; int j = 0; System.out.println("Test: " + i+j);
produces "10" when many readers might expect "1". Seems like an argument
for introducing a new operator for string concatenation. Maybe "::"?
Scott Hudson
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Scott.E.Hudson.html
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