From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2006-05-07T04:27:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Extending Core Classes - Best Practices

Quoting louis.j.scoras@gmail.com, on Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:01:14AM +0900:
> To be safe, you might just want to subclass String instead:
...
> Sure.  It's annoying to have to call the constructor everywhere but at

This pattern could help in some cases, but doesn't address a number of
common use cases in which you don't create the string. Like when the
string came out of a library you call, or you are implementing a library
and the string was an argument.

Cheers,
Sam