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I strongly agree. The use of SortedMap should be no longer preferred, like that for java.util.Stack/Vector. We should update the Javadoc to refer to NavigableMap as the main total-ordered version and refer to SortedMap as a legacy interface. In fact, we
should probably override all SortedMap methods in NavigableMap, so IDE navigations never direct users to SortedMap.</div>
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Chen Liang</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> core-libs-dev <core-libs-dev-retn@openjdk.org> on behalf of Remi Forax <forax@univ-mlv.fr><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 2, 2024 8:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> core-libs-dev <core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Stuart Marks <smarks@openjdk.java.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> ewrite the last section of the overwiew fo SortedMap documentation and a link fo NavigableMap</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hello,<br>
I was discussing with a student, she was trying to use the SortedMap interface but had trouble with tailMap() no being a strictly higher view from a key.<br>
The solution was to use NavigableMap instead of SortedMap because it provides more methods to get lower/higher subMap and entries from keys.<br>
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I think we can improve de documentation of SortedMap (the last section (Note:) of the overview) by rewriting it saying that NavigableMap provides a richer API<br>
instead of the current documentation that propose to add 1 or '\0' to the subMap() which is a ugly hack.<br>
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regards,<br>
Rémi<br>
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