Addition or Concatenation??

[Piyush Sam]

What will be output of the following program?

System.out.println('A');
System.out.println('A' + 'B');

1 A AB
2 65 131
3 A 131

Anser is A 131

The problem is Java's design blunder of using + to mean both addition and concatenation. Addition also promotes to int, which println displays differently from char.

Plz somebody explain in more detail.


Regards,

[Srinivasa Raghavan]

Hi Sam
When you do a addition operation on a char it gets automatically casted to integers , so it will be a normal addition.

Ex : System.out.println ( "One" + "Two" + 1 + 2 ) = OneTwo12
S.O.P ( 1 + 2 ) = 3 // and not 12.

The problem is Java's design blunder of using +

You should not blame the design of java , when the concepts are not clear.

[Steve Morrow]

Plz somebody explain in more detail.

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