What happened to primitive classes?

[Brian Goetz]

There's a document on these shifts coming soon.

On 5/22/2023 11:08 AM, Remi Forax wrote:
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>     *From: *"Julian Waters" <tanksherman27 at gmail.com>
>     *To: *"valhalla-dev" <valhalla-dev at openjdk.org>
>     *Sent: *Monday, May 22, 2023 4:41:59 PM
>     *Subject: *What happened to primitive classes?
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>     Sorry if this is a silly question, but I recently browsed through
>     JEP-401 to find that all references to primitive classes have been
>     completely scrubbed, as if they were never there at all. I haven't
>     been keeping up to date with Valhalla lately, so I can't tell
>     what the changes (if any) have been. Did they move elsewhere or
>     were they changed to something else?
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> Yes, all values classes are now nullable by default.
> The equivalent of the old primitive class is a non-nullable value 
> class with a default instance.
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> If you declare the value class Range like the first example of the 
> JEP-401, Range! (not the '!') is what is the closest to the old 
> primitive class.
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>     best regards,
>     Julian
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> regards,
> Rémi
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