RFR: 8282819: Deprecate Locale class constructors

2022-03-24 Thread Naoto Sato
Proposing to deprecate the constructors in the `java.util.Locale` class. There is already a factory method and a builder to return singletons, so there is no need to have constructors anymore unless one purposefully wants to create `ill-formed` Locale objects, which is discouraged. We cannot ter

Re: RFR: 8282819: Deprecate Locale class constructors

2022-03-24 Thread Stuart Marks
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 22:01:30 GMT, Naoto Sato wrote: > Proposing to deprecate the constructors in the `java.util.Locale` class. > There is already a factory method and a builder to return singletons, so > there is no need to have constructors anymore unless one purposefully wants > to create `i

Re: RFR: 8282819: Deprecate Locale class constructors

2022-03-24 Thread Naoto Sato
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:18:54 GMT, Stuart Marks wrote: >> Proposing to deprecate the constructors in the `java.util.Locale` class. >> There is already a factory method and a builder to return singletons, so >> there is no need to have constructors anymore unless one purposefully wants >> to cre

Re: RFR: 8282819: Deprecate Locale class constructors

2022-03-25 Thread Roger Riggs
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 22:01:30 GMT, Naoto Sato wrote: > Proposing to deprecate the constructors in the `java.util.Locale` class. > There is already a factory method and a builder to return singletons, so > there is no need to have constructors anymore unless one purposefully wants > to create `i

Re: RFR: 8282819: Deprecate Locale class constructors

2022-03-25 Thread Roger Riggs
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 22:01:30 GMT, Naoto Sato wrote: > Proposing to deprecate the constructors in the `java.util.Locale` class. > There is already a factory method and a builder to return singletons, so > there is no need to have constructors anymore unless one purposefully wants > to create `i

Re: RFR: 8282819: Deprecate Locale class constructors

2022-03-25 Thread Naoto Sato
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:37:36 GMT, Roger Riggs wrote: >> Proposing to deprecate the constructors in the `java.util.Locale` class. >> There is already a factory method and a builder to return singletons, so >> there is no need to have constructors anymore unless one purposefully wants >> to crea