I'm happy to see that
http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
includes a lot of great new stuff for Java regular expressions. I'm
specifically excited about named captures via (?<NAME>...) and \k<NAME>,
and the new \x{XXX} escape to allow code points to be specified logically
instead of in some encoding form (UTF-16, but still). Also, support for
the Unicode script property is *extremely* welcome. Thank you!
However, the referenced bit of javadoc still contains substantial errors of
fact and of treatment. These are errors which I have previously reported
here, and which I had thought would have been corrected via a doc update
prior to release.
While I'm on top of it, I see that
http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Character.html
also still contains certain errors I previously reported as well.
Have these actually been released with their errors still in them,
or am I just not looking at the right thing?
I don't mean to come off sounding as though I am complaining without
pitching in and helping, so I would be *very* glad to offer documentation
patches to fix these errors. I just don't want to tread on anybody's toes.
Do please let me know what I can do to help.
thank you,
--tom
