[offtopic] RE: [jdom-interest] Text class

[Tom Bradford]

Matthew Mackenzie wrote:
> Forgive me if this is terribly naive, but does any one know why
> java.lang.String* are final?

In the case of String, it's because in order to safely say that the
value is immutable, you can't have access to the underlying character
array.  It would be bad.  With StringBuffer, I have no idea.

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