On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:38:10 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> In our experience with using the API, having exceptions when something is
>> funny about close is very valuable info (as also stated in the javadoc).
>> Almost always there's a subtle temporal bug going on which the ISE catches.
>> I'm not sure if here you refer to the fact that the javadoc is being overly
>> broad in saying "already been closed" instead of "already been closed
>> _successfully_" ? What kind of problems are you thinking of?
>
> Most of the AutoCloseable in the platform are Closeables where close is
> specified to have no effect when already closed. With a confined Arena it
> would be benign for the owner to invoke close again. If it's been useful at
> finding bugs then okay. The scenario that made me wonder about this is
> something like the follow where MyWrapper::close invokes Arena::close.
>
> try (var arena = Arena.openConfined();
> var wrapper = new MyWrapper(arena)) {
> :
> }
Actually, I see that the `@apiNote` we used to have has disappeared in the API
reshuffling. I will add it back.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10872
