On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 21:34:10 GMT, Phil Race <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We were not sure if -ve divider size can be used by third party >> implementation. It probably will be considered a compatibility issue as >> mentioned earlier. >> @prrace Will you be ok to throw IAE instead of ignoring -ve value as >> suggested or should we keep it as it is now in this PR? > >> We were not sure if -ve divider size can be used by third party >> implementation. It probably will be considered a compatibility issue as >> mentioned earlier. >> @prrace Will you be ok to throw IAE instead of ignoring -ve value as >> suggested or should we keep it as it is now in this PR? > > IAE is just too incompatible. The program would probably stop working if > anyone is actually doing that. > If it had been done since day one, yes, but too late now. > > I didn't get why some effect like the "visibility" of the divider in some L&F > should be allowed to over-rule the specified size. @prrace Probably we could reinstate @implNote to the javadoc as I did earlier, to allow 3rd party L&F -ve divider size? ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9566
