8231149: Small verbiage errors in java.nio.file package documentation

Brian Burkhalter brian.burkhalter at oracle.com
Tue Sep 17 21:02:17 UTC 2019


> On Sep 17, 2019, at 1:54 PM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 17, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Lance Andersen <lance.andersen at oracle.com <mailto:lance.andersen at oracle.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> - * or on some other machine.  The exact nature of any such inconsistencies are
>>> - * system-dependent and are therefore unspecified. </p>
>>> + * or on some other machine.  The exact nature of any such inconsistencies is
>>   should this still be “inconsistencies are” ?
> 
> I thought the conjugation of “to be” was with respect to “nature” as opposed to “inconsistencies” hence the change to singular, but I could be mistaken.

Or maybe “nature” should instead be plural:

"The exact natures of any such inconsistencies are system-dependent and therefore unspecified."

Brian
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