Operator "+": is it really overloaded for strings?

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I often hear people say that the plus (+) operator for String objects is an overloaded operator. Why? Which operators does it overload?

I know what this operator does and how it works. I also know that Java doesn't support user-defined overloaded operators.

It merely **resembles** an overloaded operator such as one would find in C++. — Joe Sewell, Jun 29 '15 at 20:37

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '15 at 20:35

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It is not overloaded. It's a concatenation operator for strings defined at the language level. See String Concatenation Operator +.

answered Jun 29 '15 at 20:35

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