On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:30:01 GMT, Joe Darcy <[email protected]> wrote:
> While some of the existing text in BigDecimal could be read as implying
> exponent overflow/underflow will throw an ArithmeticException, it is
> reasonable to simply state that explicitly.
>
> The next text is meant to cover the usage of the checkScale family of methods.
>
> I'll reflow the existing paragraph once the text is agreed to.
src/java.base/share/classes/java/math/BigDecimal.java line 200:
> 198: * but bounded. If the scale of a result would exceed the range of a
> 199: * 32-bit integer, either by overflow or underflow, the operation may
> 200: * throw {@code ArithmeticException}.
Do we need an indefinite article here, e.g., `throw an`?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3204
