On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 14:19:16 GMT, Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review this long-awaited change to documentation inheritance. > > This change improves "methods comment algorithm" and introduces directed > documentation inheritance. While "methods comment algorithm" -- automatic > search for inheritable documentation -- has been improved, it still cannot > read an author's mind so as to always find the documentation they intended. > From now on, an author can state their intention, by providing an FQN of the > superclass or superinterface from which to inherit documentation: > > {@inheritDoc S} > > Which is exactly what I did to counterbalance some of the JDK API > Documentation changes caused by the change to "methods comment algorithm". For details on changes to "methods comment algorithm", see the associated CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8287152 ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14357#issuecomment-1581099793