<i18n dev> RFR: JDK-8285932 Implementation of JEP 430 String Templates (Preview) [v21]

[Jim Laskey]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:43:42 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jim Laskey has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Wrong line separator
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/template/StringTemplate.java line 302:
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>> 300: 
>> 301:     /**
>> 302:      * No-op template processor. Used to highlight that non-processing of the StringTemplate
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> I wonder if there's a play to call this the "identity" processor. In the sense that it takes a template and just returns that unchanged. That would also help with calling it "raw" which creates confusion with some compiler messages.

It's a reasonable suggestion. This processor would used rarely, so calling it IDENTITY (more than 3 characters) is not an impediment. However, IDENTITY doesn't really speak to what it does. RAW was chosen primarily because it is what other languages use. (I had used NOOP  earlier.)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10889