RFR: 8280713: Related to comment inheritance jdk.javadoc cleanup and refactoring [v3]

[Joe Darcy]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:46:05 GMT, Pavel Rappo <prappo at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Explorative refactoring performed while looking into multiple `@inheritDoc` issues. The easiest way to review it is to, probably, go commit by commit; they are quite focused and commented. Not only the branch as a whole, but all the constituent commits should pass tests and leave JDK API Documentation unchanged.
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> Pavel Rappo has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Fix outdated code
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>    Uses a set instead of list for quick method search. In a future commit we'll try to figure out why `found` are not unique.
>  - Fix outdated code
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>    Fix outdated inline comments and names. Both the assertion and the `contains` method will be removed in a future commit.

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I've looked over the Utils.java class. From my initial reading, I think it would be reasonable to add 

ElementKind.isExecutable[Element]
ElementKind.isVariable[Element]
ElementKind.isDeclaredType() // isClass || isInterface currently

I'm less convinced of the benefit of adding various "isFoo()" methods.

I've filed

JDK-8282411: Add useful predicates to ElementKind

to track this work.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7233