Primitive wrapper constructors in JLS

[Gavin Bierman]

Hi Adam,

Yes, good spot. I’ll action that. The 24 editions are already delivered, so this won’t appear until the 25 edition I’m afraid.

Many thanks for your interest in the specs!

Gavin

> On 2 Mar 2025, at 22:41, Adam Thompson <dathompson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that the JLS is still using the constructors of primitive
> wrappers in a few places. As these are deprecated for removal, I think
> they should be removed from the JLS.
> 
> 5.1.1.1 String conversion
> Uses wrapper constructors to define how primitives are converted into
> strings. "class instance creation expression" is the term for
> constructors, so just changing the code expressions to valueOf() is
> not enough.
> 
> 8.1.2
> Uses Integer and Double constructors in examples. Easy to change to valueOf().