javac used to allow expressions of the form

	o += s

where o is a variable of type Object and s is an expression of type String.
We fixed that recently (4642850) and this caused a build failure (4741702).
Perhaps this is common enough that we should relax the spec instead of
fixing the compiler?

N/A

I'm inclined to relax the spec, though we'd have to know what other
implementations do before making a final call on this.

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2002-09-04
JLS3 permits Object+=String because the '+' means string concatenation and that is able to concatenate an Object with a String as easily as a String with an Object.
Posted Date : 2008-01-31 02:19:12.0