RFR: 8224052: Javadoc doesn't handle non-public intermediate types well

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 01/15/2020 03:47 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>
> As regards package-private and private intermediate supertypes, in the 
> absence of any pre-existing comment to the contrary, your inclusion of 
> isPrivate in isUndocumentedEnclosure is morally justifiable, even if 
> it is a change in behavior in an absurdly weird corner case that (to 
> the best of my knowledge) is undocumented.

As further justification for this change in behavior to be regarded as a 
bug fix, I note that javac allows access to public methods of private 
intermediate supertypes.  This implies the behavior is required by JLS, 
and so is justification for javadoc documenting the available methods.

Toy files attached, for the record.

-- Jon
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