[External] : Re: Two new draft pattern matching JEPs

[John Rose]

On Mar 4, 2021, at 8:28 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
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> A lot of people (initially, me included) would like to just interpret a boolean expression as a pattern:
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>     case Foo(var x, var y) && x > y: ...
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> I found that goal compelling, but as patterns get more complicated, this gets unreadable.  A main benefit of the true() patterns (or, the explicit guard() pattern declared above) is that it "quarantines" the expression in an expression wrapper; there's a clear boundary between "pattern world" and "expression world”.

Yes, this is the stubborn root cause we are working around.