Hi,
the pull request for this was already closed so I had no chance to
comment on it itself.
I think there is a discussion about default locales I would like to start.
My personal reality is that the default locale is useless. In fact it is
actually a pain to work around it and very often I have to use multiple
formats even for the same language. Not even the tests for GROOVY-12147,
which also adds methods based on default locals, test based on the
default locale. And I think they should.
I would like to start a potentially controversial discussion:
Do not support methods depending on the default Locale in GDM.
If we want to have a convenience variant without formatter or locale,
then let's define one format. I would especially remove that currency
variant introduced in that PR.
What do you guys think? I am especially interested in the opinion of
people that do not program for just one country/region. I for example
have very often programs in swiss/german/italian/french/english at the
same time. At least if it is more than just a small command line script.
Already when writing log files I may need a different format than what
my locale says.
bye Jochen
