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Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence

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On 9/27/2013 10:31 AM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> On 2013-09-27 15:30, Andreas Leitgeb allegedly wrote:
>> Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> wrote:
>>> I'd make the toString() as follows to be on the safe side:
>>>    char[] cs = new char[ m_len ];
>>>    Arrays.fill( cs, m_ch );
>>>    return new String(cs);
>>
>> If this is the ONLY safe side, then there wouldn't be a point
>> in implementing a CharSequence in the first place for my task.
>
> Why not? The Standard API's StringBuilder#append(CharSequence), AFAICS,
> does not call toString() -- granted, the JavaDoc stipulates nothing to
> that effect.

I read Andreas's comment as "there's not point introducing a new type if 
a repeated string is just always turned into a regular String anyway."

If your new type can be easily replaced with a static method:

   public static String repeated( char c, int count ) {
     final char[] ca = new char[ count ];
     Arrays.fill( ca, c );
     return new String( ca );
   }

Then there's really no need to introduce a new type.  However I'm not 
100% confident that I'm following his line of thought.

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StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-09-25 14:19 +0000
  Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-09-25 13:02 -0700
    Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-09-25 18:34 -0700
      Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-09-26 17:37 +0000
        Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-09-26 23:11 +0200
          Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-09-27 13:30 +0000
            Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-09-27 19:31 +0200
              Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-09-27 13:45 -0700
                Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-09-27 23:16 +0000
                Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-09-29 04:58 +0200
                Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-09-30 20:02 +0000
  Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-09-25 20:57 -0400
    Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-09-26 18:01 +0000
      Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-09-26 15:47 -0400
        Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-09-26 20:48 +0000
          Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-09-26 16:58 -0400
            Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-09-27 12:52 +0000
              Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-04 20:59 -0400
                Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-05 12:51 +0000
  Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-09-27 15:41 +0300

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