On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 22:01:30 GMT, Naoto Sato <na...@openjdk.org> 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 `ill-formed` Locale objects, which is discouraged. We cannot > terminally deprecate those constructors for the compatibility to serialized > objects created with older JDKs. Please see the draft CSR for more detail. Given the large number of cleanups, I would have suggested to keep them separate from the change to re-focus the API on factories. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7947
