On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 08:40:42 GMT, Peter Levart <plev...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Mandy Chung has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional >> commit since the last revision: >> >> Kim's suggestion on the wording > > src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Runtime.java line 662: > >> 660: * or that any particular number of {@link java.lang.ref.Reference >> Reference} >> 661: * objects will be cleared and enqueued. >> 662: * <p> > > Hi Mandy, > I'm not a native speaker so this might be wrong thinking: The word > "determine" feels to me like saying "cause". But running System.gc never > actually causes the change of reachability (well it does, when the Reference > object is cleared, the reachability of referent changes from > Weakly/Softly/Phantom-reachable to unreachable, but I don't think you had > that in mind. Or did you?). What would you say about using word "detect" > instead? Please others, do say if my thinking is wrong... Well, "determine" seems to have both meanings: https://www.google.com/search?q=determine So by the 2nd meaning, it is good. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/pull/183