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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: Type conversions with the empty string
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 08:34:06 -0000 (UTC)
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Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> wrote:
> You misunderstood. You can literally have a class named java.lang.String,
> and if it is early enough on the class path, it can override "the"
> java.lang.String.

If this is possible (maybe by patching the JVM), then wouldn't "" be of
that other j.l.String type, too?