[External] : Re: String concatenation order of operations

[Brian Goetz]

On 9/18/2021 6:34 PM, Liam Miller-Cushon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 3:01 PM Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com 
> <mailto:brian.goetz at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     The natural way to do this is to have the various arguments passed
>     as real stack arguments, causing them to all be evaluated before
>     being pushed through the MH nest
>
>
> I'm not sure I understand this part. Aren't non-constant arguments 
> already being evaluated and passed as stack arguments to the 
> invokedynamic?

Yes, they are being evaluated, but not toString'ed.  So the compiler 
generates code to evaluate and push all the arguments, and then the 
bootstrap does the toString'ing.  That means that arg #2 is evaluated 
before arg #1 is toString'ed.  For non-string / primitive arguments, the 
compiler would have to emit `invokevirtual Object::toString` for each 
argument as it is pushed.
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