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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Angelos,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">JCK team started working on JEP 455: Primitive types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview). Just noticed that in the draft spec,
<a href="https://cr.openjdk.org/~abimpoudis/instanceof/jep443-20231010/specs/instanceof-jls.html">
https://cr.openjdk.org/~abimpoudis/instanceof/jep443-20231010/specs/instanceof-jls.html</a>, there is a change for the switch statement:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">14.11 The switch Statement<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Expression</span></em> is called the
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">selector expression</span></em>. The type of the selector expression must be
<code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">char</span></code>, <code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">byte</span></code>,
<code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">short</span></code>, <code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">int</span></code>, or a reference type, or a compile-time error occurs. (jls-14.11-200)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Expression</span></em> is called the
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">selector expression</span></em>. The type of the selector expression
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">can be either a primitive or a reference type.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">But the corresponding assertion for switch expressions is not changed:<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">15.28. switch Expressions<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Expression</span></em> is called the
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">selector expression</span></em>. The type of the selector expression must be
<code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">char</span></code>, <code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">byte</span></code>,
<code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">short</span></code>, <code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">int</span></code>, or a reference type, or a compile-time error occurs. (jls-15.28-200)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Could you please take a look?<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Yuriy<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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