RFR(S): 8055032: Improve numerical parsing in java.net and sun.net

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/08/2014 10:32, Claes Redestad wrote:
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> Any particular place where you think readability becomes a problem? 
> I've grown fond of the
> parseInt(s, radix, offset) form myself, but I'm biased. ;-)
It's somewhat subjective but when a method has a sequence of parameters 
that are the same type (int in this case) then reading the code requires 
a bit of extra effort to match up the parameters.

Looking at this again then I just wonder if the radix should be last 
parameter rather than having it appear before the range. I think it 
would be clearer if the  range were to follow the CharSequence rather 
than having the radix appear in the middle. I didn't have cycles to 
follow the recent discussion/review on core-libs-dev when these methods 
were added. Did the ordering come up?

-Alan.