RFR: JDK-8021560,(str) String constructors that take ByteBuffer

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/02/2018 21:55, Stuart Marks wrote:
> :
>
> I'd also suggest adding a CharBuffer constructor:
>
>     public String(CharBuffer cbuf)
>
> This would be semantically equivalent to
>
>     public String(char[] value, int offset, int count)
>
> except using the chars from the CharBuffer between the buffer's 
> position and its limit.
CharBuffer::toString already does this so adding this constructor may 
not be as useful as it initially looks.

-Alan