RFR: JDK-8313253: Rename methods in javadoc Comparators class

Fri Jul 28 10:09:50 UTC 2023

On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:47:00 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a fairly simple change, to simply rename methods in the `Comparators` class, to remove the `make` prefix from the method names, and (for consistency) in one case, remove `get`.  There are some updates to the more problematic javadoc comments as well.
> 
> It would be nice to think that the implementation of some methods could be improved by chaining use of simpler standard comparators, but that would be a different task.

@jonathan-gibbons I also suspect comparators can be unified/simplified. There is a JBS issue for this and I plan to look into this soon. https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8256984

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15057#issuecomment-1655428873