5 Aug
2014
5 Aug
'14
7:33 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:45 AM, roger riggs <roger.riggs@oracle.com> wrote:
Hi,
Don't get too carried away on adding convience methods, last year when StringJoiner was proposed, there was quite a bit of tension between enough and too much.
StringJoiner is certainly funky. I'm not sure what the perfect string joining API is, but StringJoiner probably isn't it.
Don't add to the size and maintenance of the JDK without a clear use case and knowledge that the APIs will be used frequently.
String repetition is quite popular - in perl, it has its own operator ("x") ! I see thousands of uses of Strings.repeat here at Google.