RFR: 8284191: Replace usages of 'a the' in hotspot and java.base [v2]

Thu May 19 18:59:57 UTC 2022

On Thu, 19 May 2022 08:47:47 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Alexey Ivanov has updated the pull request incrementally with seven additional commits since the last revision:
>> 
>>  - ...set to the values...
>>  - ...will result in a Zip64 Extra (EXT) header
>>  - ...in addition to the main attributes...
>>  - ...and the address of the current archive
>>  - Merges the stack at the given bci...
>>  - Returns a single ...
>>  - ...when a peer shuts down an association.
>
> src/jdk.jdi/share/classes/com/sun/jdi/ClassType.java line 348:
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>> 346: 
>> 347:     /**
>> 348:      * Returns the single non-abstract {@link Method} visible from
> 
> I would think "Returns a single ..." because the implementation returns the first match it finds, from possibly many.

I've accepted it, yet I'm still unsure whether ‘a‘ or ‘the’…

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8768