Revert 12494.

lib/coreimpl/string_buffer.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2011, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 /**
  * The StringBuffer class is useful for concatenating strings
  * efficiently. Only on a call to [toString] are the strings
  * concatenated to a single String.
  */
 class StringBufferImpl implements StringBuffer {
   /**
    * Creates the string buffer with an initial content.
    */
-  StringBufferImpl(Object content) {
+  StringBufferImpl([Object content = ""]) {
     clear();
     add(content);
   }
 
   /**
    * Returns the length of the buffer.
    */
   int get length {
     return _length;
   }
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     _buffer.clear();
     _buffer.add(result);
     // Since we track the length at each add operation, there is no
     // need to update it in this function.
     return result;
   }
 
   List<String> _buffer;
   int _length;
 }