• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• To: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:47:54 +0100

> For a variety of reasons, String can have no subclasses in Java.

Ah yeah..

> A string can be of any length, including zero.

Yep, it would've been nice to have an inbuilt type for a
non-empty-string, as 99.9% of the time I want the value to be non
empty if its present.


-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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  • Style, Substance and Typing in Schemas
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  • RE: Style, Substance and Typing in Schemas
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