String object

[Bhayajis Bhayajis]

Is there any valid reason why byte, long, float, double, int, short and char are primitive types and not String (which is an object)

[Tom Wolve]

Convenience is a reason maybe not a valid one.
I prefer writing (and reading)

a+b+c

instead of

 a.add(b).add(c).

[ October 16, 2003: Message edited by: Tom Wolve ]

[Jamie Robertson]

Shouldn't the question in an Object Oriented language be "Is there any valid reason why byte, long, float, double, int, short and char are primitive types?"
but back to your question, if String was a primitive, it wouldn't be able to have any methods ( because primitives can't have methods! ). So if you remove all the methods, and supporting class functionality, what are you left with?
char[] ! which is a primitive array!
actually, I don't think that's the real reason, but I digress
Jamie