Thanks for the corrections -- somewhere along the line I had picked up the
mistaken notion that Java treated "==" and ".equals" as the same thing
(which always puzzled me as it went against my understanding of languages
that used references.) A quick check of the language specification cleared
that up.
An interesting side note:
String a = "Hello"; String b = "Hello"; // or even String b = "H" + "ello"
if (a == b) System.out.println("a == b");
if (a.equals(b)) System.out.println("a.equals(b)");
prints both "a == b" and "a.equals(b)" using both the Sun JDK 1.2 compiler
and jikes on Windows NT. This is part of what led me astray so long ago, and
I re-ran the experiment today with the same result.
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