Re: String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE

2007-11-19 Thread Nick Radov
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Re: String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE

2007-11-17 Thread Rémi Forax
Mark Reinhold a écrit : Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:19:50 -0800 From: Nick Radov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The bug voting mechanism doesn't really work for trivial RFEs like this. First, the bug has been closed for a while and no one is going to vote for a closed bug. Second, everyone only get

Re: String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE

2007-11-16 Thread Patrick Wright
Hi Mark > > Let's look at this RFE a different way. Is there any reason not to > > implement it? > > Beware: In general this is not a very persuasive line of reasoning. > > If all RFEs over the last ten years had been evaluated in this way then > most of them would've been implemented by now, and

Re: String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE

2007-11-16 Thread Mark Reinhold
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:19:50 -0800 > From: Nick Radov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The bug voting mechanism doesn't really work for trivial RFEs like this. > First, the bug has been closed for a while and no one is going to vote for > a closed bug. Second, everyone only gets a few votes so they're g

Re: String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE

2007-11-16 Thread freds
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Re: String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE

2007-11-16 Thread Stephen Colebourne
please inform the sender immediately and remove any record of this message./ From: Phil Race <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Nick Radov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net Date: 11/13/2007 07:58 PM

Re: String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE

2007-11-16 Thread Nick Radov
TED]> To: Nick Radov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net Date: 11/13/2007 07:58 PM Subject: Re: String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE Nick, I note this has just two customer records and just a single jdc vote despite having over eight years to accumulate these whi

Re: String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE

2007-11-16 Thread Tim O'Brien
ltrim and rtrim are excedingly useful. I've often wondered why Sun didn't bother to include them. It is just another one of those reasons why people tend to say that string manipulation in Java leaves much to be desired. This should take all of two minutes to implement, and has a sub-trivial imp

Re: String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE

2007-11-13 Thread Phil Race
Nick, I note this has just two customer records and just a single jdc vote despite having over eight years to accumulate these whilst it was open, whereas popular issues quickly accumulate hundreds of votes. Furthermore only one person has found it important enough to comment in the bug parade

String.ltrim() and rtrim() methods RFE

2007-11-13 Thread Nick Radov
I would like to reopen discussion of Bug ID: 4074696 < http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4074696> for possible inclusion in jdk7. It seems to me that RFE was prematurely closed without proper consideration. Many developers have needed to left or right trim a String and I'm sure that same co