Call for bikeshed -- break replacement in expression switch

[Guy Steele]

> On May 16, 2019, at 5:05 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16/05/2019 21:46, John Rose wrote:
>> On May 16, 2019, at 1:34 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> On the other hand is a trivial one to resolve, given what we're discussing now is something like
>>> 
>>> "yields" EXPRESSION
>>> 
>>> so, as soon as the compiler sees a "(" it will say: "ok, that's not a new yield statement".
>> The tricky bit with that is the user experience.  What if the
>> user needs a parenthesized expression:
>> 
>> yield ("answer is "+x).trim();
>> 
>> There are some sharp edges here.
> 
> I was hoping we didn't need to go there :-)
> 
> There are other contexts in which we limit what can be done w/r/t/ parenthesized expressions (since these are ambiguous with cast to generic types). So this looks like another case where the grammar has to say - sorry no parens here.

And _that_ would very much give me pause.  I would find it quite wrenching to have a place in the language where an expression cannot be parenthesized and have it mean exactly the same thing.

Maybe we should go back to a hyphenated keyword.

—Guy