New candidate JEP: 455: Primitive types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview)

[Iris Clark]

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

  455: Primitive types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview)
  https://openjdk.org/jeps/455

    Summary: Enhance pattern matching by allowing primitive type patterns
    to be used in all pattern contexts, align the semantics of primitive
    type patterns with that of instanceof, and extend switch to allow
    primitive constants as case labels. This is a preview language feature.

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Thanks,
Iris