RFR: 8262889: Compiler implementation for Record Patterns

[Aggelos Biboudis]

On Thu, 5 May 2022 12:16:23 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I think this is i) from the domination relation:
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>>> A record pattern with type R and record component pattern list L dominates another record pattern with type S and record component pattern list M if (i) the erasure of S is a subtype of the erasure of R, and (ii) every pattern, if any, in L dominates the corresponding pattern in M.
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>> I think this is i) from the domination relation:
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>> > A record pattern with type R and record component pattern list L dominates another record pattern with type S and record component pattern list M if (i) the erasure of S is a subtype of the erasure of R, and (ii) every pattern, if any, in L dominates the corresponding pattern in M.
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> But this subtyping test seems to happen at the level of the component pattern list, not at the R/S level, right?

You are right. It is the ii) which iteratively checks the component pattern list L.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8516