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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote, > It's worse. It's not just the String class. It's the char primitive > data type which is much harder to change precisely because it's not > a class. For 'hard', read 'impossible'. > In 20-20 hindsight, there probably never should have been a char > type in the first place, and all APIs should have been designed to > work with String and Character objects instead. If Java is, or ever was, a specialized text processing language you might have a point. Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin InterX Internet Systems Architect 27 Great West Road +44 (0)20 8817 4030 Middx, TW8 9AS, UK msabin@i... http://www.interx.com/
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