Re: RFR: 8077242: Add default method CharSequence.getChars(int srcBegin, int srcEnd, char[] dst, int dstBegin)

Thanks Martin for quick reply! On 10.05.2015 1:17, Martin Buchholz wrote:

Martin can you recollect if there were any concerns?

It's absolutely true that I dropped the ball on this in jdk8, discouraged by David's message here: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-May/017174.html

Ah, yes. I see the problem. I'm not going to suggest a general solution, but would it make sense to at least create an overloaded method AbstractStringBuilder.append(String str, int start, int end)? Here's a draft webrev for this proposal: BUGURL: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077242 WEBREV: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/8077242/01/webrev/ Sincerely yours, Ivan