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8370910: Cleanup terminology of UUID vs Global Identifiers in UUID #28435

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* A class that represents an immutable universally unique identifier (UUID).
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Maybe change this to "Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID)" too.

* A UUID represents a 128-bit value.
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* <p> There exist different variants of these global identifiers. The methods
* <p> There exist different variants of these UUIDs. The methods
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What would you think about replacing this paragraph with this:

"This class is primarily designed for manipulating Leach-Salz variant UUIDs, but it also supports the creation of UUIDs of other variants."

* of this class are for manipulating the Leach-Salz variant, although the
* constructors allow the creation of any variant of UUID (described below).
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