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 -- BOFH excuse #248: Too much radiation coming from the soil. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list