New candidate JEP: 506: Scoped Values

[Adam Gent]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2025, at 10:53 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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!).
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> -Alan
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> [1] https://download.java.net/java/early_access/loom/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ScopedValue.html#orElse(T)

Oh darn it i was looking at the wrong Javadoc. I was looking at: https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk25/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ScopedValue.html#orElse(T)

I forgot the loom fork. I guess that indeed changes things for the better.