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Why are Strings final?

Posted by Dan Cranmer on May 23, 2000 at 12:57 PM

Why is the String class from Sun final?
Wouldn't it be nice to create a class which could
extend the String class? Or am I going about this OO
thing the wrong way?

Thanks, Dan

• Strings are very special objects Ivan Porty May 26, 2000 at 3:21 AM (0)