RFR: 8310033: Clarify return value of Java Time compareTo methods [v9]

[Stephen Colebourne]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:59:42 GMT, Roger Riggs <rriggs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In java.time packages, clarify timeline order javadoc to mention "before" and "after" in the value of the `compareTo` method return values. 
>> Add javadoc @see tags to isBefore and isAfter methods
>> 
>> Replace use of "negative" and positive with "less than zero" and "greater than zero" in javadoc @return
>> The term "positive" is ambiguous, zero is considered positive and indicates equality.
>
> Roger Riggs has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 14 additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8310033-time-compareto
>  - Corrected descriptions with respect to chronology and the concrete temporary type.
>  - Improve wording and remove markup for clarity
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8310033-time-compareto
>  - Correct the descriptions to correctly identify the compareTo return
>    value < 0 as this is before that, and > 0 as this is after that.
>    Thanks to a careful reviewer spotting my reversing of the conditions.
>  - Improve the grammar of "the comparator value is" -> "the comparator value, that is"
>    Thanks for the reminder.
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8310033-time-compareto
>  - Improve descriptions to be more specific and remove inappropriate use of before/after
>    Remove extra blank lines
>  - Clarify return values of date time classes
>  - Use {@code xxx} to highlight the comparison against the arg.
>    Update copyrights.
>  - ... and 4 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/f4b0e559...5ecd7aeb

LGTM

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Marked as reviewed by scolebourne (Author).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14479#pullrequestreview-1541440889