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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Java blunders
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:05:34 -0400
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On 7/30/2014 5:07 AM, Jukka Lahtinen wrote:
> Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> writes:
>
>> On 7/28/2014 4:23 PM, Josip Almasi wrote:
>>> It's about how operator gets interpreted:
>>> out.println ( new StringBuffer("the answer is ").append(new
>>> StringBuffer(a + b)).append(new StringBuffer("."));
>
>>      Why do you think this is so?  javac 1.8.0_11 compiles it to
>> the equivalent of
>> 	out.println(new StringBuilder()
>> 	    .append("the answer is ")
>> 	    .append(a + b)
>> 	    .append(".")
>> 	    .toString());
>
> You could drop one append call by using another constructor:
>      out.println(newStringBuilder("the answer is ")
>          .append(a + b)
>          .append(".")
>          .toString());

     You could, but javac doesn't.

     You could also drop the toString() call by using a different
println() overload -- but again, javac doesn't.

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