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<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The draft of the spec covering JEP 455 (Primitive types in patterns, instanceof,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and switch (Preview)) is updated at:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://cr.openjdk.org/~abimpoudis/instanceof/latest/</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Even though we have discussed the spec before on the list (and the semantics have</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">not changed), there are a few significant improvements in this updated draft:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- The spec draft is rebased on top of JLS 22 (inheriting an editorial</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> change that introduces testing contexts (5.7),</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and incorporating all the changes for unnamed patterns and variables from JEP 456).</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- It streamlines the definitions of exact conversions and</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> unconditionally exact conversions.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Feel free to send an email on this list for any comments.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Many thanks,</span></div>
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