New candidate JEP: 506: Scoped Values

[Ron Pressler]

> On 15 Apr 2025, at 18:44, Ron Pressler <ron.pressler at oracle.com> wrote:
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> We gave this matter serious consideration (and even made some changes to the API as a result), reviewed all arguments on both sides of the question, and in the end we didn’t find the case against allowing null less convincing overall than the case for allowing it (especially since users will be able to choose a type argument that allows or disallows null values as they please, and potential extensions of pattern matching make the pattern-matching argument less compelling).
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> Even if this matter were still open, bringing up the very same arguments that were in front of us when we considered the matter would not lead to a different outcome.
> 
> — Ron

^ Where I wrote “didn’t find”, I meant to write “found"