trings and the Java Compiler</a>
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Before moving on to another lesson, you need to understand one final,
important peculiarity about Strings and StringBuffers. The Java compiler
uses Strings and StringBuffers behind the scenes to handle literal strings
and concatenation.
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<strong>Note to C and C++ Programmers:</strong> Java strings are first-class objects;
whereas C and C++ strings are simply null-terminated arrays of characters.
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