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Subject: Re: Type conversions with the empty string
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 21:29:16 -0500
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On 1/30/2017 1:08 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> writes:
>> On 1/28/2017 07:43, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>> String.valueOf( 123 )
>> You would prefer any of those over Integer.toString(123)?
>
>   »java.lang.String.valueOf« is the universal one-stop
>   solution to convert anything into a string, including
>   primitive values, class instances and even null! So it
>   does not make me think. Whenever I want to convert anthing
>   into a »java.lang.String« instance, I use this.
>
>   »java.lang.Integer.toString« makes me thing about the type
>   of »123« and what the wrapper class of that type is, and
>   whether it really has such a method (for example, the static
>   »java.lang.Boolean.toString« method is only @since 1.4,
>   while »java.lang.Integer.toString« is @since 1.0.)

Well - some actually like that type strictness. Including me.

If something should be an int, then I prefer a compile time
error if it suddenly is not an int any longer.

Arne