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

Mark Reinhold mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Fri Oct 27 14:03:58 UTC 2023


2023/10/19 9:08:45 -0400, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> 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.

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

- Mark


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