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On 6/14/11 9:38 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Peter Duniho<NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com>  writes:
>> True.  Instead, in Java (and .NET, Cocoa, etc.) instead we
>> have mutable and immutable strings.
>
>    In Java there are strings and string buffers/builders.

See my reply to "markspace".  Both java.lang.String and 
java.lang.StringBuilder are "strings".

>    A string buffer/build is not a string, just a char sequence.

A StringBuilder most certainly is a string.  Just because it's not 
type-assignable to/from String doesn't keep it from being a string.