On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:33:13 GMT, Pavel Rappo <[email protected]> wrote:

>> We recently [discussed] the possibility of introducing saturating arithmetic 
>> for deadline computation. Consider this PR as a starting point. Once we 
>> agree on the implementation, I'll file a CSR.
>> 
>> I created a method in `Instant` to add `Duration`. One could argue that the 
>> proper way would be to go all the way and create a method in `Temporal` to 
>> add `TemporalAmount`. Or maybe even expand the functionality, and create an 
>> additional method in `Temporal` to subtract `TemporalAmount`.
>> 
>> My current thinking is that if we were to do that, there would be a lot of 
>> expensive, unused code. Saturating logic seems to be only useful for 
>> `Instant` and `Duration`.
>> 
>> Even if we decide to extend `Temporal` to add/subtract `TemporalAmount`, it 
>> could always be done later. From the perspective of `Instant`, 
>> `plus(TemporalAmount)` will be just an overload of `plus(Duration)`.
>> 
>> [discussed]: 
>> https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2025-September/151098.html
>
> Pavel Rappo has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Address feedback and fine tune the spec
>   
>   Good catch, Naoto! Double checked by make docs-jdk-api.

Marked as reviewed by naoto (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27549#pullrequestreview-3342086727

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