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Subject: Re: Java blunders
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On 7/27/2014 2:28 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:13:16 -0700, Roedy Green wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:11:24 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
>> <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
>> someone who said :
>>
>>> Perl and PHP use . as the string concatenation operator. It seems as
>>> good as any to me:
>>
>> I wonder if . would conflict with its use in qualification.
>>
> That's possible. [...]

     Yes: An example was offered upthread.  Expanding on it:

	class Clown {
	    static String clownName = "Bozo";
	    static {
	        System.out.println(clownName.equals("Bozo"));
	    }
	}

What output appears when the class is initialized: "true" or
"Bozofalse"?

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