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On 6/14/2011 9:14 AM, Peter Duniho wrote:
> 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.


I don't think so.  String is final and immutable.  You can't make a 
mutable object that is-a string.

You can make a CharSequence mutable, and Strings are CharSequence's, but 
you can't make a mutable String.