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

[Justin Lu]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 17:49:04 GMT, Roger Riggs <rriggs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.base/share/classes/java/text/DecimalFormatSymbols.java line 720:
>> 
>>> 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:
>> 
>>      * 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.

I agree. I think that is a good wording update which naturally covers both the single and multiple minus signs case.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26580#discussion_r2255034183