Martin B??hr wrote: >Excerpts from Stephen R. van den Berg's message of 2014-08-28 09:13:38 +0200: >> String.Buffer b="abcdef"; >> b+="ghi"; >> write(b); >> b="jkl"; >> b+="mno"; >> write(b);
>> Then it strikes me as "obvious" that this would result in >> printing abcdefghi and jklmno. >what's not obvious is that b should still be of type String.Buffer. Isn't it? You can't change the type of something by assignment, only by declaration, which is done only once. -- Stephen. "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
