New candidate JEP: 506: Scoped Values

[Alan Bateman]

On 16/04/2025 15:43, Adam Gent wrote:
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> You see orElse on `Optional` which is what people are familiar with and what I think is confusing given it has the same name is known in static analysis world of `PolyNull` where if I pass in `null` I'm going to get `null` back regardless of the container generic type.
The proposal is that ScopedValue.orElse(T) doesn't accept null [1] so 
different to Optional.orElse. When null restricted types come then the 
hope is that it can change orElse(T!).

-Alan

[1] 
https://download.java.net/java/early_access/loom/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ScopedValue.html#orElse(T)
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