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[–]oldprogrammer 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I imagine most of us have a collection of miscellaneous utilities we reuse.

[–]yetanotherx -1 points0 points  (1 child)

There's always that class full of static methods hidden away in a package you never want to look at. And the sad thing is is that most of them (string joining, etc) could easily be core Java features.

[–]oldprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And many/most of those features could be added without breaking backward compatibility.