RFR(S): 8055032: Improve numerical parsing in java.net and sun.net

[Alan Bateman]

On 18/08/2014 22:12, Mike Duigou wrote:
> On Aug 14 2014, at 06:39 , Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> On 14/08/2014 14:23, Claes Redestad wrote:
>>> How about methods only taking beginIndex? Integer.parseInt("x: 10000000", 3, 10)? I guess these could to be dropped
>>> to avoid ambiguity and instead allow for variations where radix can be left out.
>>>
>>> I think there are two alternatives to the current implementation:
>>> - only keep parseInt(CharSequence s, int beginIndex, int endIndex, int radix)
>> That's my preference
> Looking at the examples I agree that providing only this one method is probably the least error prone option.
>
I think we mostly got agreement on net-dev to re-examine the newly 
introduced methods. I've created JDK-8055032 to track it and I'm sure 
Claes will pick it up once he gets back.

-Alan.