Dan Bishop wrote:
> On Oct 9, 11:40 am, Bjoern Schliessmann
>> String eggs = new String();
>>>> The latter seems totally unnecessary to me, as well as being too
>> verbose
> It is! All you have to write is
>> String eggs = "";
>> Unfortunately, the other object types don't have literals.
LOL. Sun likes their own String objects more than their principles,
don't they? :)
> Can't be, because Java already uses the syntax for something
> different than C++.
Ah, know what you mean (empty reference). That seems weird to me
too, altogether. This syntax break compared to basic types makes it
all most unaesthetic.
Regards,
Björn
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