RFR: 8363972: Loose matching of dash/minusSign in number parsing [v7]

[Roger Riggs]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 16:28:32 GMT, Justin Lu <jlu at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Naoto Sato has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>   refrects review comments
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/text/DecimalFormatSymbols.java line 720:
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>> 718:     /**
>> 719:      * {@return the lenient minus signs} Multiple lenient minus signs
>> 720:      * are concatenated to form the returned string.
> 
> The surrounding package private methods use since tags.
> 
> Suggestion:
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>      * are concatenated to form the returned string.
>      * @since 26

It might be clearer to say that each character of the string is a valid minus sign character.
If you want to preserve the option for full support for surrogates it could say codepoints instead of character.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26580#discussion_r2254967444