<i18n dev> RFR: 8282819: Deprecate Locale class constructors [v7]

Tue Mar 29 21:34:52 UTC 2022

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 21:28:44 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Proposing to deprecate the constructors in the `java.util.Locale` class. There is already a factory method and a builder to return singletons, so there is no need to have constructors anymore unless one purposefully wants to create `ill-formed` Locale objects, which is discouraged. We cannot terminally deprecate those constructors for the compatibility to serialized objects created with older JDKs. Please see the draft CSR for more detail.
>
> Naoto Sato has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Changed from var-args to conventional args. Reflected suggestions.

Per a comment in the CSR discussion (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8283478?focusedCommentId=14485037&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-14485037), I changed the arguments to var-args to conventional ones.

-------------

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7947