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Re: Overloading of "+" for string concat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.co)
Tue May 16 21:11:35 1995
From: patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 17:59:19 -0700
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
|> 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 "::"?
It looks to me more like an argument for -ALWAYS- fully parenthesizing
your expressions...
-Pat
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