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Re: StringBuilder.append and CharSequence

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markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> wrote:
> On 9/25/2013 1:02 PM, markspace wrote:
>> On 9/25/2013 7:19 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>>> Is it safe to use "stringBuilder.append(this);" in a CharSequence
>>> implementation's .toString(), or could this lead to a recursive
>>> loop, if some version of a Java class library implements the
>>> append() for CharSequence by using it's toString() ?
>> [...]
> Actually, I mis-read your problem statement, I think.  Having 
> implemented a couple of CharSequence classes, the only rational approach 
> would be to copy the chars out of a CharSequence one at a time with a 
> loop and charAt().  toString() must create an immutable String and so 
> must create a new buffer, so that's an extra buffer copy, which seems 
> undesirable no matter who's implementing the append() method.

That's my point. My outset is, that eventually I need to append a number
of copies of some particular char to a StringBuilder, and my approach is:

   static class ChSeq implements CharSequence {
      int m_len; char m_ch;
      public ChSeq(int len, char ch) { m_len = len; m_ch = ch; }
      public char charAt(int pos) { return m_ch; }// OutOfBounds? meh!
      public int length() { return m_len; }
      public String toString() { // just 'cause it's required...
        return new StringBuilder(this).toString(); }
      public CharSequence subSequence(int fr,int to) {
        return ChSeq(to-fr,m_ch); }
   } // not yet tested!
   // then later:
   sb.append( new ChSeq(n,ch) );

This would look like a reasonable OO approach to the problem, but
if StringBuilder.append actually used my .toString(), then it would
of course crash&burn.

If instead I had to implement the toString() by doing the loop myself
and hammer the char n times to the temporary StringBuilder, then I'd
instead just write a static method that would take sb,n,ch and feed n
copies of ch to sb.

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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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