JEP proposed to target JDK 26: 530: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Fourth Preview)

[Mark Reinhold]

The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 26:

  530: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Fourth Preview)
       https://openjdk.org/jeps/530

  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 20:00 UTC on Thursday, 13 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 26.

- Mark


[1] https://openjdk.org/census#jdk
[2] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html