There is no reason to concatenate literal strings. Doing so is an exercise is reducing code readability. Instead, the strings should be combined. Similarly, literal strings should not be ``++append++``ed to a ``++StringBuffer++`` or ``++StringBuilder++`` sequentially, but combined into one call. == Noncompliant Code Example ---- String message = "Hello " + "world" + "!"; // Noncompliant StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.append("I'm pleased").append(" to meet you."); //Noncompliant ---- == Compliant Solution ---- String message = "Hello world!"; StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.append("I'm pleased to meet you."); ---- ifdef::env-github,rspecator-view[] == Comments And Links (visible only on this page) include::../comments-and-links.adoc[] endif::env-github,rspecator-view[]