RFR: 8289397: Fix warnings: Possible accidental assignment in place of a comparison. A condition expression should not be reduced to an assignment [v2]

[Andy Goryachev]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:54:56 GMT, Andy Goryachev <angorya at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> - replaced with exact functional equivalent (in the presence of exceptions, for example)
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> Andy Goryachev has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - 8289397: review comments
>  - Revert "8289397: functional equivalent"
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>    This reverts commit 6ae0ef60b186c75993fe7faa099140b26593d308.

+1 for 1996 reference!

added a comment and javadoc to the public method.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/851