I find this a tricky one.

When it's explicitly referring to the type, CharSequence seems fine,
but to change the text that is talking about what a method does to:

"Work out a CharSequence's length"

It feels very unwieldy.

Do others find this weird, or is it just me?

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:28 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/03/2010, ggreg...@apache.org <ggreg...@apache.org> wrote:
>> Author: ggregory
>>  Date: Sat Mar  6 22:09:37 2010
>>  New Revision: 919859
>>
>>  URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=919859&view=rev
>>  Log:
>>  Change length(String) to length(CharSequence)
>>
>>  Modified:
>>     
>> commons/proper/lang/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java
>>
>>  Modified: 
>> commons/proper/lang/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java
>>  URL: 
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/lang/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java?rev=919859&r1=919858&r2=919859&view=diff
>>  ==============================================================================
>>  --- 
>> commons/proper/lang/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java
>>  (original)
>>  +++ 
>> commons/proper/lang/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java
>>  Sat Mar  6 22:09:37 2010
>>  @@ -4614,7 +4614,7 @@
>>       * @return String length or <code>0</code> if the String is 
>> <code>null</code>.
>
> s/String/CharSequence/g ?
>
>>       * @since 2.4
>>       */
>>  -    public static int length(String str) {
>>  +    public static int length(CharSequence str) {
>>          return str == null ? 0 : str.length();
>>      }
>
> Perhaps the Javadoc needs changing too?
>
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