<i18n dev> RFR: 8041488: Locale-Dependent List Patterns [v12]

[Joe Wang]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 20:15:26 GMT, Roger Riggs <rriggs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I think that Type/Style/Locale forming a specific pattern is an implementation detail, so I would not describe it in the spec (although as you say they form a specific pattern in the impl). It could be that an impl of 3-arg getInstance() can be independent of patterns described in 1-arg getInstance().
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> Type and Style select a pattern defined for the locale. (for the zero arg and three arg getInstance methods).
> I think I would avoid the term "concatenation", the type defines a pattern that contains punctuation and connecting words. The style selects among the full, short, and narrow patterns.

I thought they're already a part of the public API described in the current javadoc, e.g. ListFormat.Style and ListFormat.Type (https://cr.openjdk.org/~naoto/JDK-8041488-ListPatterns-PR/api.00/java.base/java/text/ListFormat.html). I thought you meant to support general patterns (the List Patterns) and a few (specific) "type attributes" as in the LDML spec.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15130#discussion_r1316375403