RFR: 8329644: Discuss expected visitor evolution patterns in javax.lang.model.util

Tue Apr 16 23:49:59 UTC 2024

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:34:06 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Provide more concrete discussion of how the preview visitors are expected to evolve for different categories of language changes.

The code diffs were extracted from change temporary made in a repo to add support for a preview feature 1 and preview feature 2.

The two paths of adding API support are consistent with past practice when API support was added for previous language features; see issues linked to in JDK-8329644 for prior examples.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18804#issuecomment-2060081069