On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 14:46:49 GMT, Per Minborg <pminb...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR proposes to harmonize the @throws tags in the javadocs for the FFM 
> API.
> 
> The @throws tags are using a bit different principles with respect to 
> formatting and ending with a period or not.
> 
> Looking at some prominent Java classes like `List` and `Stream`, they:
> 
> 1) Indent such that multi-line texts align with the beginning of the 
> Exception type
> 2) Do not have a period after the text.
> 
> Some of the tags in the FFM classes already conform to these bullets. This PR 
> proposes to make them all do.

Nice to see consistency, while respecting English grammar.
If any javadoc text is a full sentence, it should end with a period. If it is a 
fragment, then the period is omitted.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16478#issuecomment-1790966335

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