println-Bug in Java

Wed Mar 16 17:44:00 GMT 2005

David Daney wrote:
> Bojan Antonovic wrote:
>>> ... So for me this is a bug in the Java 
>> Language Specification, because it leads to misbehaviour.
>>>> For me, this thing is cleared, and I don't want to polute 
>> java@gcc.gnu.org with discussions about facts they can't change! :)
>>> Per is correct, you are mistaken.

You missed this part of Bojan's message. I don't necessarily agree
that the definition of '+' "leads to misbehavior" but I don't think
it's a good design choice. '++' might have been less confusing if a
trifle more verbose, though with Java-5's varargs theer is less
need for String concatenation.
For example, Java's '+' isn't associative or commutative. (Floating-point
'+' isn't associative either, but it's at least "approximately" asociative.)
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