RFR: JDK-8329624: Add visitors for preview language features

Thu Apr 4 06:40:11 UTC 2024

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 05:48:25 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The visitor classes are themselves preview APIs. Is this the first time that preview APIs have been proposed without a JEP? Just wondering how much visibility this preview API will get.

To clarify the intention, the visitor classes are meant to be persistent preview APIs to help host specific preview APIs associated with modeling upcoming new language features. In particular, these visitor classes are expected to get small updates as part of the work being done in

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/18509

The preview visitor classes as such don't need much visibility as their use will be through various previewing language features.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18609#issuecomment-2036304517