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Dear experts,</div>
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A draft JEP for the third preview of primitive types in patterns, instanceof,</div>
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and switch is now available and submitted. We propose to preview it for a third</div>
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time with no changes relative to JDK 24.</div>
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https://openjdk.org/jeps/8349215 </div>
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To recall, this feature drops restrictions around switch and instanceof. During</div>
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the evolution of this feature we established new terminology and functionality</div>
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to safeguard against loss of information or other exceptional cases across all</div>
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types, uniformly. One of the goals of this feature is to not introduce new</div>
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conversions, rather to safeguard against all existing ones. Re-previewing as is</div>
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for the third time gives us the opportunity to examine Chapter 5 of the JLS</div>
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holistically and identify opportunities that could pave the road to other</div>
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potential language features, e.g., constant patterns, null-restricted value</div>
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class types etc.</div>
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Thank you,</div>
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