New Candidate JEP: 402: Unify the Basic Primitives with Objects (Preview)

[Iris Clark]

The following JEP with scope "SE" has been moved to the Candidate state:

  402: Unify the Basic Primitives with Objects (Preview)
       https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/402

  Summary: Unify the basic primitives (int, double, etc.) with objects by
  modeling the basic primitive values as instances of primitive classes
  (introduced by JEP 401) and repurposing the wrapper class declarations
  to act as the basic primitives' class declarations.  As a result
  of this change, all Java values will be objects.  This is a preview
  language and VM feature.

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Thanks,
Iris