Probably because the API-Spec
(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/StringBuilder.html#toString%28%29)
says "..A new String object is allocated and initialized to contain
the character sequence currently represented by this object..".
Regards,
Volker
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Jan Ohlsen <jan.t.ohl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> System.out.println( new StringBuilder().toString() == "" );
> -> "false"
>
>
> Any reason for not returning the "" instance?
>
>
> public String toString() {
> return new String(value, 0, count);
> }
>
> -->
>
> public String toString() {
> return (count > 0) ? new String(value, 0, count) : "";
> }
>
> ?
