• terranium <spam here.lot> Apr 29 2008

Walter Bright Wrote:

 Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
 After working with Java for quite some time, I have naturally drifted from
 using invariant strings to stringbuffers.


 Java strings lack slicing, so they're crippled anyway. I believe that 
 slicing is one of those paradigm-shifting features, so I am not making 
 an irrelevant point.


Building an SQL query with multiple concats is a well-known pitfall for novice
programmers.