RFR [9] 8132468: docs: replace <tt> tags (obsolete in html5) for java.io, java.lang, java.math

Daniel Fuchs daniel.fuchs at oracle.com
Thu Aug 6 07:18:19 UTC 2015


Hi Alexander,

On 8/5/15 2:01 PM, Alexander Stepanov wrote:
> Hello Stuart,
>
> Please see the final version of File.java (please update the page) - 
> just replacing <tt> with <code> in the mentioned places:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~avstepan/8132468/webrev.01/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/File.java.udiff.html 
>
> The specdiff reports for lang and io:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~avstepan/8132468/specdiff.io/overview-summary.html 
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~avstepan/8132468/specdiff.lang/overview-summary.html 
>

This looks good to me as well.

best regards,

-- daniel
>
> Regards,
> Alexander
>
> On 8/4/2015 12:47 AM, Stuart Marks wrote:
>> Hi Alexander,
>>
>> I think Pavel's advice to run specdiff is useful. It's not too 
>> difficult to run and in this case it provides a useful cross-check 
>> for making a large number of markup changes. Contact me directly if 
>> you need help with specdiff. I've run specdiff over your webrev.01 
>> and I've posted the results here:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8132468/specdiff.01/overview-summary.html 
>>
>>
>> They show that of all the changes you made, only four are considered 
>> significant from specdiff's point of view. Of these, two appear to be 
>> merely whitespace issues, but there are two changes that do appear 
>> significant:
>>
>>     File(URI)     // constructor
>>     File.toURI()
>>
>> In both cases the italic 'f' is intended to be a metasyntactic 
>> variable, not an actual variable that's part of the code. The italic 
>> 'f' should be restored. In the case of File.toURI() it appears that 
>> the resulting code is now malformed, so there's clearly an error here.
>>
>> You and Daniel Fuchs had an exchange about this a bit earlier. I 
>> suspect the reason for the   that appears between the opening 
>> parenthesis and the italic 'f' is so that the tail of the 'f' doesn't 
>> crash into parenthesis. In other words, the   is there merely 
>> for typographical purposes. I suspect that after you restore the 
>> italic 'f' it'll look bad, so you'll want to restore the   as well.
>>
>> s'marks
>>
>> On 8/3/15 9:03 AM, Alexander Stepanov wrote:
>>> Hello Pavel
>>>
>>>  > Hi Alexander, if I were you I would run specdiff
>>> Thanks; but sorry, I'm afraid I haven't enough time for the extra 
>>> experiments
>>> just now...
>>>
>>>  > It's very easy to go the all the way and lose oneself in there :)
>>> please accept my condolences :)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alexander
>>>
>>> On 8/3/2015 6:33 PM, Pavel Rappo wrote:
>>>>> On 3 Aug 2015, at 16:07, Alexander Stepanov 
>>>>> <alexander.v.stepanov at oracle.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Please see the updated webrev:
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~avstepan/8132468/webrev.01/
>>>>>
>>>>> removed wrapping <code></code> around the links (mostly 
>>>>> PrintStream.java,
>>>>> PrintWriter.java, File.java), plus other changes in File.java
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alexander
>>>> Hi Alexander, if I were you I would run specdiff against the 
>>>> changes and
>>>> upload it along with the RFR.
>>>>
>>>> P.S. "I've tried it once, it was awful." [1] It's very easy to go 
>>>> the all the
>>>> way and lose oneself in there :)
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-December/030262.html 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Pavel
>>>>
>>>
>




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