String concatenation tweaks
Dawid Weiss
dawid.weiss at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 08:03:10 UTC 2015
Hello. Very interesting discussion. I just wanted to observe that
while Alex's statement is an interesting theoretical debate with regard
to the specification:
> Unhappily, a call to append(..) can in general fail with OutOfMemoryError.
in reality if such a situation happens and you're running so close to
heap exhaustion then whether a method got called during string
concatenation or not is probably of small practical importance
(because the program is very likely to crash anyway, even when
concatenating/ formatting any further exception messages...). I am not
advocating to violate the spec, just trying to be realistic.
Dawid
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