On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 19:50:29 GMT, Naoto Sato <na...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I know this looks wrong and I debated with myself about it, but 1) Locale
>> equals is complex 2) many Locales are global constants 3) there is a 1-1
>> correspondence of DecimalFormatSymbols to locale. AFAIK even If two locales
>> describe the same configuration there will be two distinct
>> DecimalFormatSymbols. Is this not the case? I can add a comment to indicate
>> that this is was deliberate decision.
>
> I am afraid people are still using constructors for creating a locale,
> instead of the factory method that was added later. Since `new Locale("en")
> == new Locale("en")` returns `false`, I'd still expect `equals()` to compare
> locales. As to the constants, the number of them is relatively small, IMO.
As a separate/future issue, perhaps the constructors should be deprecated to
nudge people to using the static `getInstance` methods.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7703
