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danbjson on May 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should String Be An Abstract Class?

Agreed. I cannot see anyone in this thread (blogpost or comments) that has argued for the opposite "string should be mutable".

jkulmala on May 26, 2013 [–]

Well, immutable classes are final. Thus, suggesting to make it abstract does suggest the opposite, IMHO.

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