JEP proposed to target JDK 22: 456: Unnamed Variables & Patterns

[Mark Reinhold]

The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 22:

  456: Unnamed Variables & Patterns
       https://openjdk.org/jeps/456

  Summary: Enhance the Java programming language with unnamed variables
  and unnamed patterns, which can be used when variable declarations or
  nested patterns are required but never used.  Both are denoted by the
  underscore character, _.

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 Thursday, 26 October, 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