New candidate JEP: 456: Unnamed Variables and Patterns

[Mark Reinhold]

2023/9/25 16:12:21 -0400, davidalayachew at gmail.com:
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> Is this the first time a JEP has jumped from Preview to GA with only one
> round of Preivew? I know the default is 2 rounds, and then there are some
> like Sequenced Collections that don't require any preview at all.

Yes, this is the first JEP that has done just one round of Preview.

In this case, the change is so straightforward and the groundwork was
laid so long ago — starting all the way back in JDK 8 in 2014 — that a
second round of preview did not seem worthwhile.

- Mark