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The author of the change participated in a Reddit thread discussing it when the update came out. Thought he made a pretty good case for it. https://reddit.com/

• e40 11y ago
  I don't know, this https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qw73v/til_oracle_changed_the_internal_string/cdhupx4 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qw73v/til_ora... seems to bring up persuasive arguments on the other side.
  • threeseed 11y ago
    His suggestion is pretty ludicrous though. You can't just deprecate substring() which is a function that is used in what 90% of the millions of Java applications around the world. All because life is difficult for a tiny few edge cases (and for which workarounds exist i.e. checking Java version numbers). Sure it wasn't great that it was done during a bug fix but we need to be mindful that Java releases do span multiple years.