Is concatenating with an empty string to do a string conversion really that bad?

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Your arguments are good; this is one of the more expressive areas of the Java language, and the "" + idiom seems well entrenched, as you discovered.

See String concatenation in the JLS. An expression like

"" + c1 + c2

is equivalent to

new StringBuffer().append(new Character(c1).toString())
                  .append(new Character(c2).toString()).toString()

except that all of the intermediate objects are not necessary (so efficiency is not a motive). The spec says that an implementation can use the StringBuffer or not. Since this feature is built into the language, I see no reason to use the more verbose form, especially in an already verbose language.

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