No, the point of the argument was that people should be FORCED to subclass String. Which is kinda pointless, as its easy for lazy programmers to circumvent, and

No, the point of the argument was that people should be FORCED to subclass String. Which is kinda pointless, as its easy for lazy programmers to circumvent, and there ARE things that are fit to be represented by just Strings. But I do agree with the author that it should be either subclassed or run through a validator function in a lot of cases.