RFR: JDK-8200436 - String::isBlank

[Remi Forax]

Hi Louis,
I prefer isBlank to isWhitespace, there is a notion of all characters in isBlank that you do not have with isWhitespace.

Rémi

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Louis Wasserman" <lowasser at google.com>
> À: "Xueming Shen" <xueming.shen at oracle.com>
> Cc: "core-libs-dev" <core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Lundi 14 Mai 2018 22:15:50
> Objet: Re: RFR: JDK-8200436 - String::isBlank

> It's not clear to me that "isBlank" is a good name for this method.
> "isWhitespace" might be more appropriate, perhaps.
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:48 PM Xueming Shen <xueming.shen at oracle.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> +1
>>
>> On 5/14/18, 8:25 AM, Jim Laskey wrote:
>> > New string instance method that returns true if the string is empty or
>> contains only white space, where white space is defined as any codepoint
>> returns true when passed to Character::isWhitespace.
>> >
>> > webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/8200436/webrev/index.html
>> > jbs: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200436
>> > csr: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200437
>> >
>>