I think the confusion is with what the variable "name" represents. The
reference variable *name* does not contain the string value "Sang" or
"Shin" inside it. *name* is a reference variable of type string that can
reference (point to) a String object in memory. A reference variable of
type String can reference (point to) any String object in memory. The
actual String object can not be changed (hence, immutable) and once it's
dereferenced, will be up for garbage collection. The example below does
this with the String object "Sang".
On 8/30/2011 2:07 PM, VM wrote:
Why is String considered immutable while the code below works?
String name = "Sang"; System.out.println(name);
name ="Shin";
System.out.println(name);
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