RFR: 8295000: java/util/Formatter/Basic test cleanup

[Brent Christian]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:48:15 GMT, Justin Lu <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> So, the above suggestion gives explicit auto-boxing, though some might find it wordier than necessary.
>> 
>> Since `v.byteValue()` already returns a `byte`, the `(byte)` cast doesn't seem necessary. I see that L242 does:
>>> `return -v.intValue();`
>> 
>> which is a pretty clean look. So `return -v.byteValue();` would be an option, too.
>
> Negating v.byteValue() promotes it into an int. So then casting to byte would be necessary.

Oh yeah...oops.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10684