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On 6/14/11 3:29 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> [...]
> In Java, there's of course no need to distinguish those ancient(*haha*)
> string-variants, so St and Sz as prefixes wouldn't make sense here.

True.  Instead, in Java (and .NET, Cocoa, etc.) instead we have mutable 
and immutable strings.

(Thankfully, at least by standardizing on an encoding, APIs have also 
removed one other of the other ways different string objects vary in C/C++).