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

[Naoto Sato]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 20:29:53 GMT, Joe Wang <joehw at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 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.
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> 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.

Yes, they are public API. My intention was to keep those patterns exposure as minimal as possible, as they are complicated so that users who just wish to acquire formats only with Type/Style/Locale need not know it. Only those who want to customize their own patterns can do so with the 1-arg getInstance(), thus I wanted the description in that method.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15130#discussion_r1316388330