Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Substring changes (JDK 1.7) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:50:54 +0100 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Xg/jHuLtBN7PtZMWezPaAQ8dmf433B4f3mpziafbb5aSnlMovC4xf2pngudPnm/oc= Cancel-Lock: sha1:aarQjOQRc8ZuY/1QobCcMMztvVE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21361 On 11.01.2013 08:19, Roedy Green wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:29:16 +0100, Robert Klemme > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted > someone who said : > >> Well, shouldn't such a basic thing be part of the standard library? > > String is final and many things take a String parm and nothing else. > You can create something similar and use it like String. There is no reason in what you say that it should not be part of the std lib. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/