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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Writing type conversions
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:11:15 +0000
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John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> writes:

> On 23 Nov 2020 12:29:27 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
> wrote:
>
>   <snip>
>>  However, in the Java world many deemed »+ ""« to be bad
>>  style because it does not express the intent of the
>>  programmer to convert something to a string but would
>>  mystify the reader. I do not share this point of view,
>>  however, because I think the intent of »+ ""« is clear.
>
>   "" + x + 1
> makes it more obvious.

Am I missing a joke?  (It does something else altogether.)

-- 
Ben.