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why is that string buffer is mutable and string immutable

Posted by Alex on May 11, 2001 at 6:55 PM

> why is that string buffer is mutable and string immutable?

when you do
String var = "aaa";
and then
var = "bbb";

Java will do equivalent of 1) var = new String("aaa");
then 2) var = new String("bbb");
It creates different object at the pointer var, not sets some property