Small things Java lets you do, but not everywhere.

[Adowrath]

> - array literals
> we already have them no ?
> new int[] { 2, 3, 5};
> if you mean supported in the bytecode, yes, we are working on that as a follow up of ConstantDynamic.
>
>
Seeing as they explicitly mentioned "I can imagine `return` statements 
working really well with it, ...", I think they refer to the shorthand 
instead.
i.e. That you can do this:

int[] a = {2, 3};

But can't do any of these:

int[] a; a = {2, 3};

int[] f() { return {2, 3}; }

void g(int[] a) {} g({2, 3});

For all of these cases and possibly more, the shorthand literals are not 
allowed and explicit type information has to be added. To their point 
about expression switch, I think it's to allow this:

break {2, 3};

But with moving closer to patterns at a later stage, I think this would 
also be helpful

switch(...) {
   case {2, 3} -> ...;
   default -> ...;
}

Regards,
Cyrill Brunner