Strange colon in CollationElementIterator javadoc

[Naoto Sato]

It was meant to be a vertical ellipsis. In hindsight, we could use the 
explicit character for that purpose. ('⋮' U+22EE)

Naoto

On 10/6/21 12:07 PM, Andrey Turbanov wrote:
> Hello.
> While reading the javadoc of CollationElementIterator I found a
> strange colon in the example.
> 
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/share/classes/java/text/CollationElementIterator.java#L87
> 
>      String testString = "This is a test";
>      Collator col = Collator.getInstance();
>      if (col instanceof RuleBasedCollator) {
>          RuleBasedCollator ruleBasedCollator = (RuleBasedCollator)col;
>          CollationElementIterator collationElementIterator =
> ruleBasedCollator.getCollationElementIterator(testString);
>          int primaryOrder =
> CollationElementIterator.primaryOrder(collationElementIterator.next());
>              :
>      }
> 
> Does it mean something?
> It was added under https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6486695
> 
> 
> Andrey Turbanov
>