On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:38:34 GMT, Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> This PR fixes a few trivial grammar issues and typos in documentation. > > The main issue is the use of the word "timeout". To my mind, timeout, a > duration, is not the same as deadline, which is a point in time, an instant, > which allows "before" and "after". While one can think of timeout as of an > event, which can occur, it usually expires, or elapses. An activity can also > "time out" (phrasal verb). > > I think the proposed change might read better and match wording already used > throughout `java.util.concurrent.**`, for example, here: > > * > https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/00e6c63cd12e3f92d0c1d007aab4f74915616ffb/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/ExecutorService.java#L211-L223 > * > https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/fbe4cc96e223882a18c7ff666fe6f68b3fa2cfe4/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/locks/AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java#L1019-L1036 > > > @DougLea, thoughts? This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: 07352c67 Author: Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/07352c67448f3f35827395c83ac95e3ca0e4c6bc Stats: 6 lines in 3 files changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 6 mod 8338398: Trivially fix grammar and typos Reviewed-by: aivanov ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20584
