JEP proposed to target JDK 20: 433: Pattern Matching for switch (Fourth Preview)

Mark Reinhold mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Tue Nov 29 19:27:51 UTC 2022


2022/11/16 10:09:35 -0800, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 20:
> 
>   433: Pattern Matching for switch (Fourth Preview)
>        https://openjdk.org/jeps/433
> 
>   Summary: Enhance the Java programming language with pattern matching
>   for switch expressions and statements.  Extending pattern matching to
>   switch allows an expression to be tested against a number of patterns,
>   each with a specific action, so that complex data-oriented queries can
>   be expressed concisely and safely.  This is a preview language feature.
> 
> Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> are raised by 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 23 November, or if they’re raised
> and then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal
> [2] I’ll target this JEP to JDK 20.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 20.

- Mark


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