Re: Enhancement request
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:42:41 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
Why not? It means that you can write a program which opens text files
and reads them without having to know which platform it's on. Which,
since java is supposed to be platform-neutral, is rather useful in
practice.
Doesn't the java.io API already give us that capability in a
platform-neutral way? I know that BufferedReader#readLine(), for
example, handles all three forms of line-end sequences.
That was my point! Java provides this. I read Martin's post as saying he
thought that feature was "not usually all that useful in practice", and
i disagree.
Peace. I keep forgetting about JWS applications, applets and similar. My
main point is the one that we agree on: readLine() doesn't belong as a
BufferedReader method.
True.
Almost everything I've written has been code that in practise never
changes platforms and, judging by the number of threads on this NG that
discuss embedding OS-specific code and/or shell commands in Java
applications, its pretty far from those people's minds too.
Even the related use reading DOS/Windows text files on Linux boxes or
vice versa doesn't feature very often in my requirements, but ymmv.
You're right that many uses don't need the cross-platform capability. Many
do - think of developing a server-side app on a windows box, then
deploying it on unix. What's probably very rare is needing to deal with a
variety of line endings *within a single file*, which is where most of the
complexity of readLine in java comes in. I like having the ability to do
that, but i suppose because it's reassuring, rather than for any actual
practical reason!
tom
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