Java Strings: “String s = new String(”silly“);”

Question

I\'m a C++ guy learning Java. I\'m reading Effective Java and something confused me. It says never to write code like this:

String s = new String(\"silly\");         


        

Answer 1

You can't. Things in double-quotes in Java are specially recognised by the compiler as Strings, and unfortunately you can't override this (or extend java.lang.String - it's declared final).