RFR: 8303374: Implement JEP 455: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview) [v50]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:50:51 GMT, Aggelos Biboudis <abimpoudis at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is the proposed patch for Primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview).
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>> Draft spec here: https://cr.openjdk.org/~abimpoudis/instanceof/latest/
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> Aggelos Biboudis has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Update year

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/runtime/SwitchBootstraps.java line 148:

> 146:      * @throws NullPointerException if any argument is {@code null}
> 147:      * @throws IllegalArgumentException if any element in the labels array is null, if the
> 148:      * invocation type is not a method type of first parameter of a reference type,

One thing we did often in the FFM API was to break up long `@throws` and split them into two or three `@throws` (javadoc allows the same exception to appear multiple times). Not saying you have to change this, just a possible suggestion (as I didn't know this!)

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15638#discussion_r1466119276