Add getChars to CharSequence

[Martin Buchholz]

Alan (et al): Ping.


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:

> Another version of this change is ready.  No longer preliminary.  Tests
> have been written.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk8/getChars/
>
> This kind of change is particularly subject to feature creep, and I am
> trying to restrain myself.
>
> I even addressed some of Ulf's suggestions.
> The "Msg" suffix  is gone.
> I reverted changes to AbstractStringBuilder.replace.
> I kept the naming convention for getChars parameter names.
> Parameter names and exception details continue to be maddeningly
> unsystematic, but they should be a little better than before.
>