Nick,
I note this has just two customer records and just a single jdc vote
despite having over eight years to
accumulate these whilst it was open, whereas popular issues quickly
accumulate hundreds of votes.
Furthermore only one person has found it important enough to comment in
the bug parade comments.
So I think you'd need to show that its a lot more widely needed than
some low single digits number
of developers.
-phil.
Nick Radov wrote:
I would like to reopen discussion of Bug ID: 4074696
<http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4074696> for possible
inclusion in jdk7. It seems to me that RFE was prematurely closed
without proper consideration. Many developers have needed to left or
right trim a String and I'm sure that same code has been rewritten
thousands of times in applications. It would really help to have them
in the standard library, and the impact on compiled file size would be
minimal. The evaluation reason giving for closing the bug was "You can
write this yourself and get reasonable performance with a modern VM."
Well, of course we can get reasonable performance, but that isn't
really the point. The reason for adding those methods to the standard
library is to reduce the amount of redundant, low-level code that
application developers have to write. Having to write those methods
ourselves in applications also forces the creation of
"StringUtilities" classes with a variety of static methods, which
somewhat defeats the purpose of OO design.
If we can get this reopened I would be happy to take care of making
the actual code changes. I just requested the Developer role on the
jdk project so hopefully that will be approved soon.
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