On 07/05/18 23:08, John Rose wrote:
You_may_ use "out-of-bounds" when it modifies a noun.
The form "out-of-bounds" is a compound adjective.
It is the compound-adjective form of "out of bounds".
See Rule 1 of this page:
https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/hyphens.asp
We should be internally consistent. The JLS hyphenates compound
adjectives and appears to do so consistently. For example:
"An attempt access an array component with a long index value
results in a compile-time error."
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