On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:46, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org>wrote:
> Martin Buchholz wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:10, Ulf Zibis <ulf.zi...@gmx.de <mailto: >> ulf.zi...@gmx.de>> wrote: >> At least, IMO, fileSeparator() and pathSeparator() would belong to >> java.io.File or java.nio.file.FileSystem. >> Those would have been better names, >> but at this point they are not worth adding. >> > > I don't follow - why are they not worth adding now? Because java.io.File already provides the functionality users need. Not in the best way - as fields instead of methods, and only the first char of the system property. But it's not broken enough to be worth fixing by providing a slightly better API. IMO, of course. > Becuase they should have been in JDK 1.0? Because JDK 7 is about to > release? Some other reason? How and who is deciding? > > it's a hard problem, and one that Sun/JCP/OpenJDK still needs to address. I guess right now folks are waiting for the Oracle acquisition. Martin > Over the past few weeks I've been tempted to ask for sponsorship of more > than one idea, change, or useful method (there are lots we could add). But > the process for what is accepted and what isn't seems very arbitrary. As > such, I'm just not bothering right now (nor am I working on JSR-310, as the > same arbitrary rejection could apply to that to). > > Stephen >
