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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Java blunders
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:25:51 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:10:42 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:

>      If the `.' were to replace `+' as the string concatenation
>      operator,
> then the expression `clownName.equals("Bozo")' would be ambiguous
>
It would be more likely to generate a compile-time error because neither 
operand was a String and/or could not be coerced into one.

However, I must admit that I hadn't thought of that ambiguity, not least 
because Perl and PHP coders tend to put a space on either side of '.', 
probably to make its presence easier to spot.


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