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String is immutable for good reasons. It's explained in Joshua Bloch's Effective Java, which should be mandatory reading for all Java programmers.

• danbjson 13y ago
  Agreed. I cannot see anyone in this thread (blogpost or comments) that has argued for the opposite "string should be mutable".
  • jkulmala 13y ago
    Well, immutable classes are final. Thus, suggesting to make it abstract does suggest the opposite, IMHO.