Seems like a nice extension to me. Mike
On Apr 10 2013, at 17:40 , Martin Buchholz wrote: > I've often wished that CharSequence had getChars methods, as many of the > concrete implementations already do. > In jdk8 with default methods, this is possible! > This will make some of the String code a little nicer and more efficient. > > Here's a preliminary patch in this direction, that overlaps with some of the > work done in > > 6206780: (str) Forwarding append methods in String{Buffer,Builder} are > inconsistent > Summary: update StringBuilder & StringBuffer to consistently handle > forwarding to AbstractStringBuilder. Some additional cleanup (removal of refs > to sub-classes from AbstractStringBuilder) > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk8/getChars/ > > If we have consensus that this is a good idea, I can flesh this out.