Call for feedback -- enhanced switch

[Ben Evans]

Hi Brian,

Can you explain the urgency here?

If this is going to be a permanent feature as of Java 13, the deadline
for confirming that is surely months away, and I thought that one of
the points of Preview Features was that the promotion to permanent was
supposed to be a quick flick of the switch (no pun intended).

On the other hand, Java 12 isn't even out yet! So no-one who isn't an
avid early adopter, or subscribed to this group (& I posit that we're
not exactly normal Java developers, for the most part) has tried this
feature in anger.

As Martijn pointed out, this feature has just landed in the nightly
builds of IntelliJ - perhaps Trish or one of the other JetBrains folks
can give us an idea of how many downloads they see for the nightlies?
- that might give us some idea of how many developers have actually
tried out the feature (although, of course, they are still a
self-selecting early adopter group).

Thanks,

Ben

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 22:55, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
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> We would like to promote enhanced switch to a permanent feature in Java 13.  So far, the only change we are anticipating is:
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>     - change “break value” to “break-with value”.
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> This is the time for people to try it out on their codebases (there’s even refactoring support in IDEA!) and provide feedback on what works, what doesn’t, and what was surprising.
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>