Add getChars to CharSequence

[Mike Duigou]

Seems like a nice extension to me.

Mike

On Apr 10 2013, at 17:40 , Martin Buchholz wrote:

> I've often wished that CharSequence had getChars methods, as many of the concrete implementations already do.
> In jdk8 with default methods, this is possible!
> This will make some of the String code a little nicer and more efficient.
> 
> Here's a preliminary patch in this direction, that overlaps with some of the work done in 
> 
> 6206780: (str) Forwarding append methods in String{Buffer,Builder} are inconsistent
> Summary: update StringBuilder & StringBuffer to consistently handle forwarding to AbstractStringBuilder. Some additional cleanup (removal of refs to sub-classes from AbstractStringBuilder)
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk8/getChars/
> 
> If we have consensus that this is a good idea, I can flesh this out.