Next up for patterns: type patterns in switch

Guy Steele guy.steele at oracle.com
Wed Aug 12 02:57:31 UTC 2020



> On Aug 11, 2020, at 6:43 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Let's assume that your trick works fine, Remi is happy, and `default P` means that P is total, that the switch is total, everything.  Great.  

Yes, if people will stand for it, “default P” is certainly an improvement over “default case P”, and a better word choice than “finally”.  And it avoids the ticklish one-colon difference to which I had alluded.

—Guy



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