JDK 8 code review request for initial unsigned integer

[Rémi Forax]

On 01/18/2012 08:21 PM, Roger Riggs wrote:
> A comment or two on the webrev for unsigned:
>
>      http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/4504839.2
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> 1. In the new parsing methods, could the String arguments be changed 
> to the more general
> java.lang.CharSequence? For many parsing applications, it could be 
> more convenient
> to pass a CharSequence than to create a new String.
>
> For consistency, should all of the parse methods be converted from 
> String to CharSequence?

Good idea !
I've written a simple parser generator and after analyzing the perf of 
an HTTP parser
generated by that tool a colleague of mine wrote a set of methods to convert
a CharSequence to primitive value to avoid to allocate transient String 
objects.

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> 2. To be consistent, the new thrown exception messages should not end 
> with a period (".")
>
> Roger
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Rémi