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On 06/25/2013 03:15 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
>> I'm trying to find out what you want to do to java.lang.String.  Tell me
>> that, and we'll take it from there.
> 
> At the moment, supporting the methods that take java.nio.Charset. I'm
> going to try and just hack it up with something like this:
> 
>   public String(byte[] data, int offset, int count, Charset encoding)
>     throws UnsupportedEncodingException
>   {
>     init (data, offset, count, encoding.name());
>   }
> 
> and then the same for getBytes().

OK.  I think you can just add those methods.

> But in general I anticipate that I'll continue to hit stubs or quirks
> in classpath so I'm trying to figure out how best to reach my goal,
> which will likely involve fixing up various things along the way. For
> instance, my first yak-shaving goal is to run the test suite for the
> core library of this app and then hack/fix until all the tests pass.

In general, we follow Classpath except for a few core classes -- and
String is one of those.  Major hacking on core classes requires compiler
changes, so I strongly recommend you don't do that.  For example, better
not add any fields.  But in general for almost the whole class library
you won't have so much trouble.

Andrew.