On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 11:02:34 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> @viktorklang-ora I agree that the behavior w.r.t. out-of-range indices is at >> odd with the `substring()` family, but this inconsistency is already present >> since the dawn of time ;-) > > Consistency with the indexOf/lastIndexOf methods is good, it makes it look > like the method has been there since JDK 1.0. At the same time, it could mean > that bugs go undetected, e.g. it would be easy to assume the range is > fromIndex + length or to specify the parameters in the wrong order. I don't > know if you explored other options but if the new method had a new name then > maybe you have the option to throw for out of range index values. @AlanBateman I can propose variants of forward-searching _some-prefix_`IndexOf()` which are consistent with `substring()` in their handling of the indices, but I'd then rather prefer to file another JBS issue and prepare another PR. The proposed 3 parameters variant of `indexOf()` _is_ the real "primitive" of the family. The other ones are mere shortcuts. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12600
