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Re: Warning elimination

> Thanks Chris for the advice about using `as'. I suspect <String> may be a
> better choice because the Kawa string is implicitly coerced to a Java
> string/Kawa symbol.

In this case, the result would be the same.  The code would generate
byte code similar to:

    ((gnu.lists.FString) file).toString()

while casting to <String> would just give:

    file.toString()

The cast to <string> seemed more semantically correct to me, but either
way is fine.

Regards,
Chris Dean
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