Dive Into Java?

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Dan Bishop wrote:
> On Oct 9, 11:40 am, Bjoern Schliessmann

>> String eggs = new String();
>>
>> The latter seems totally unnecessary to me, as well as being too
>> verbose
 
> It is!  All you have to write is
> 
> String eggs = "";
> 
> Unfortunately, the other object types don't have literals.

LOL. Sun likes their own String objects more than their principles,
don't they? :)
 
> Can't be, because Java already uses the syntax for something
> different than C++.

Ah, know what you mean (empty reference). That seems weird to me
too, altogether. This syntax break compared to basic types makes it
all most unaesthetic.

Regards,


Björn

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