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

[Mark Reinhold]

2023/11/17 11:20:12 -0500, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> 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.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 22.

- Mark