On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:45 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What does the Javadoc say?
>
The Javadoc describes the current behavior, which is whacky IMO. This could
be a case where the docs documents the code, even though it does not make
sense.
It sounds dangerous to change it in a minor release.
Gary
>
> On 13 January 2014 17:00, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote:
> > ping, any thought on this?
> >
> >
> > 2014/1/11 Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> while looking through the open issues for lang, I came across LANG-823:
> >> StringUtils.split should handle empty strings the same as other content
> >> [1]. The request makes sense to me - the empty string should be handled
> >> like any other content.
> >>
> >> Then I looked into StringUtils to see how other methods handle the empty
> >> string and there are more examples of specific handling of the empty
> >> string. For example the following will return true:
> >>
> >> StringUtils.containsOnly("", "abc")
> >>
> >> and it gets even more weird, since
> >>
> >> StringUtils.containsNone("", "abc")
> >>
> >> also returns true! How can the same string a the same time _only_
> contain
> >> "abc" and contain none of "abc"?
> >>
> >> I can not see any reason for this behavior. Why is the empty string
> >> different from any other string content? I'd like to change the
> behavior of
> >> the affected methods, but wanted to get some feedback first.
> >>
> >> Benedikt
> >>
> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-823
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
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