[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> Paddy:
>> Not really, it seems to me to be going the exact opposite way with
>> languages with automatic type conversions being seen as not suited for
>> larger programs.
>
> In Java you can add the number 1 to a string, and have it
> automatically converted to string before the string join... What do
> you think of that feature?
This isn't really what is happening. In fact, in Java the +-operator is
overloaded for strings to invoke the mandatory toString()-method on all
objects when concatenated with a string.
So
"" + 1
works internally as
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("");
sb.append(new Integer(1).toString());
Or something like that, depending on how optimizing the compiler is.
So you can also do
"" + some_object
However,
some_object + ""
or
1 + ""
don't work - the operator is only overloaded on the left argument.
Diez
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