Re: String question

Lew wrote:
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:
(In this particular case it'll probably just concatenate the two
literal strings at compile time, though).

It has to, by JLS 15.28, "Constant Expression".
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/expressions.html#5313>.

It could generate

String s = "Hello" + :"World";

as

String s = ("Hello".concat("World")).intern();

That would be really silly, but not so far as I can see illegal.


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