Name: jl125535 Date: 06/22/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
The methods appendReplacement and appendTail in java.util.regex.Matcher would be even more effective if there were counterparts that used the Appendable interface as parameters and/or return values.

public Matcher appendReplacement(Appendable sb, String replacement)

public Appendable appendTail(Appendable sb)



JUSTIFICATION :
Since these methods are used to build strings, then I could easily use a StringBuilder or a PrintWriter as a replacement for StringBuffer, thus saving synchronization or copying overhead.
(Incident Review ID: 280741)
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