JEP proposed to target JDK 24: 488: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Second Preview)

Mark Reinhold mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Tue Nov 5 20:27:01 UTC 2024


2024/10/29 11:06:25 -0400, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 24:
> 
>   488: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Second Preview)
>        https://openjdk.org/jeps/488
> 
>   Summary: Enhance pattern matching by allowing primitive types in all
>   pattern contexts, and extend instanceof and switch to work with all
>   primitive types.  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 16:00 UTC on Tuesday, 5 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 24.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 24.

- Mark


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