Terry Reedy wrote:
r wrote:
On Mar 11, 3:40 pm, Craig Allen <callen...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 10, 1:39 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

Identical strings don't necessarily have the same id:

A more verbose way to put this is "Requesting a string with a value that is the same an an existing string does not necessarily result in reuse of the existing string but mey result in creation of a new, duplicate string.

I'd rather go with: "All object creation will create a new object; except for immutable for which the object creator may choose to return an equivalent existing object."

Immutables are the exception.
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