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

CaseInsensitiveString is not a String although it contains a String. A String literal e.g "example" can be only assigned to a String.