Name: rm29839 Date: 10/29/97


java.text.MessageFormat has an array of objects
to format, along with an array of type java.text.Format
objects which are used to format the arguments in
the first array.

The problem is that the array indexes in these
two arrays do not correspond to each other.

The objects in the first array are placed into the
string at the positions indicating in the string
by the curly brace + integer + curly brace notation.

Contrary to this, the format objects operate on
the arguments in the string, as they appear in the
string.

This probably isn't new to you since it was in
the documentation this way. I think the two arrays
should correspond for the following reason:

Given the class Foo as one of the arguments to be
formatted, and FooFormatter, my own extension
of java.text.Formatter, as one of the formatters,
I have no way of ensuring that FooFormatter
will be used to format Foo unless I hand craft my
message string or eliminate any other arguments for
that part of the string.
(Review ID: 14483)
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