JEP proposed to target JDK 22: 463: Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Second Preview)

[Mark Reinhold]

The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 22:

  463: Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Second Preview)
       https://openjdk.org/jeps/463

  Summary: Evolve the Java programming language so that students can
  write their first programs without needing to understand language
  features designed for large programs.  Far from using a separate
  dialect of the language, students can write streamlined declarations
  for single-class programs and then seamlessly expand their programs
  to use more advanced features as their skills grow.  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 20:00 UTC on Tuesday, 28 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 22.

- Mark


[1] https://openjdk.org/census#jdk
[2] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html