New candidate JEP: 361: Switch Expressions (Standard)
Brian Goetz
brian.goetz at oracle.com
Sat Sep 28 01:48:37 UTC 2019
On 9/27/2019 6:54 PM, JARvis PROgrammer wrote:
> Thanks for your response!
>
> I've thought that ranges in current form might be just part of JEP361
> as part of new switches' syntax (in the way coma-separated values in
> them do) without any meaning in any other context, yet with
> /chance/ for this syntax to be used in the future in other ways.
> Especially, considering the fact that the chances that any other (if
> they ever happen to come into Java) meaning of such literals will be
> inapplicable in case of switch-case statements (I mean, even if
> they'll once be used for something like var subArray = array[1..3],
> this won't still be a reason for ambiguity in the place where they are
> currently suggested to be used).
I understand the optimism that this could just be "slipped in" for
switches and later expanded to other contexts. But, as I mentioned,
even a small feature like this is bigger than it looks.
> Anyway, are there any planned possible discussions about ranges (in
> the way you've described their possiblle semantics) in the upcoming
> future? I'd be happy to take part in those :)
It's in the category of "credible features we might do someday" -- which
is a very long list -- but not much more than that. The features we're
working on now have been selected because they offer a more positive
cost/benefit, so we're going to do them first, but maybe we'll come back
and look at it again someday.
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