On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:13:58 GMT, Stuart Marks <sma...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> It's an adverb, since it's the act of 'defining' that is being done too 
>> restrictively or broadly. If you want to have an adjective you would need to 
>> rephrase it so it applies to the noun, like 'defining a too restrictive 
>> accept-list'. My non-native English vibes would still prefer the former.
>
> I'd suggest `... as defining an allow-list that is too narrow or a 
> reject-list that is too wide may prevent ...`.
> 
> (edited to remove hyphen from "too-wide")

Even better!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1771

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