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From: Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Delete slot in the middle of an array and shift remaining
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:15:30 -0800
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:17:50 -0800, Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

> slot[0] = new String("first");

that "new String" is what I term "newbie stuttering".  You can write
it as
 slot[ 0 ] = "first";

"first" is already a String.

Patricia was just tidying to create an SSCCE. She elected not to tidy
that up.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/stuttering.html
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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