Thanks for the useful comments.
On Jan 7, 2026, at 4:32 PM, John Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
Maybe that is the way to go: just deprecating Path.{ends,starts}With(String)
and nothing else.
$0.01 more – I’m OK with that, as long as the javadoc teaches
the toString technique in some discoverable manner. And not just
via the deprecated methods…?
On Jan 7, 2026, at 4:36 PM, Stuart Marks <[email protected]> wrote:
So, maybe do (1) and (2) but omit (3). This boils down to just deprecating
endsWith(String) and startsWith(String).
We have had a bit of a race condition in this discussion, but at least there
appears to be some agreement that deprecation alone (with some javadoc
enhancement) is a good way to go.
