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

[Mark Reinhold]

2025/11/6 11:06:14 -0500, 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.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 26.

- Mark