Guess what this prints...

[Hemal Mehta]

class T{
  public static void main(String args[]){
    String s=new String("hello");
    System.out.println("Guess what this is "+s.toString().toString().toString());
  }
}

and why ofcourse?
Also what steps will the toString method be executed 3 times by the compiler?
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[ January 30, 2003: Message edited by: Jessica Sant ]

[John Paverd]

Or to put it another way, is this class shouting into Echo canyon, or just trying to look busy while doing nothing

[Jessica Sant]

it prints just what you expect...
Guess what this is hello
Check out the API for String.toString()
"This object (which is already a string!) is itself returned."
Do you expect something else to happen??

[Dominic Choo]

The result is:
==============================================
Guess what this is hello
==============================================
Not printing the hello for three times.

[Jasper Vader]

class T{
  public static void main(String args[]){
    String s=new String("hello");
    System.out.println("Guess what this is "+s.toString() + s.toString() + s.toString());
  }
}

this would probably give you a cool echo-chamber result, used to great effect by Led Zepelin in the seventies.