On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 16:13:49 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <b...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I read the existing specification
>
> ```
> * @throws IllegalArgumentException
> * If the parameter does not take the form: {@code
> syntax:pattern}
> ```
>
> as covering both cases, but I suppose one could explicitly state that
> "neither syntax nor pattern may be empty."
Alternatively, change "where ':' stands for itself" to "where syntax and
pattern components are non-empty strings and ':' stands for itself" sot that
it's up front when the input string is described.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9595
