RFR: 8324651: Compiler Implementation for Derived Record Creation (Preview) [v5]

[Joe Darcy]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:08:44 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlahoda at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is a patch for javac, that adds the Derived Record Creation expressions. The current draft specification for the feature is:
>> https://cr.openjdk.org/~gbierman/jep468/jep468-20240326/specs/derived-record-creation-jls.html
>> 
>> The current CSR is here:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8328637
>> 
>> The patch is mostly straightforward, with two notable changes:
>>  - there is a new `ElementKind.COMPONENT_LOCAL_VARIABLE`, as the specification introduces this term, and it seems consistent with `ElementKind.BINDING_VARIABLE` that was introduced some time ago.
>>  - there are a bit broader changes in `Flow`, to facilitate the introduction of variables without an explicit declaration for definite assignment and effectively final computation.
>
> Jan Lahoda has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Fixing tests.

For the `javax.lang.model` changes, as a new ElementKind is being introduced, there should be a matching layer of new concrete visitors and selected updates to existing visitor implementations, etc.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18509#issuecomment-2032717646