> I'm fine with users having to write toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT) or toUpperCase(Locale.Root) because this is already what we teach.
This is the current situation, but I don't think it is good. This idiom forces users to import Locale even in locale-insensitive scenarios. I think this brings a lot of noise, so we also need to eliminate it Glavo On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 4:21 AM Remi Forax <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> wrote: > > > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"Glavo" <zjx001...@gmail.com> > *To: *"core-libs-dev" <core-libs-dev@openjdk.org> > *Sent: *Tuesday, April 11, 2023 10:02:01 PM > *Subject: *Draft: Deprecate toLowerCase()/toUpperCase() and provide > locale insensitive alternative > > Hi everyone, > > A few months ago, I discussed in this mailing list[1] whether > toLowerCase()/toUpperCase() should be deprecated. > At that time, I received some approval and no one opposed the > idea. Therefore, I thought it might be time > to continue advancing this work, so I created a PR[2] for this. > > This PR is still a draft, welcome to discuss it there. > > I don't have much experience in contributing to OpenJDK yet, so I also > hope to get the help of experienced > contributors (such as creating CSR). Thanks! > > > I think deprecating toLowerCase()/toUpperCase() is a great idea but at the > same time, i'm not sure that the methods lowercase() and uppercase() are a > good addition. > Their names are too close to toLowerCase/toUpperCase thus too easy to > misuse ones for the others. > > I'm fine with users having to write toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT) or > toUpperCase(Locale.Root) because this is already what we teach. > > > > Glavo > > > regards, > Rémi > > > [1] > https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2023-January/099375.html > [2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/13434 > >
