RFR: Improving pattern handling for non-null types

[duke]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:51:24 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlahoda at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Fixes dominance for binding/any patterns whose types have a bang, attempting to improve parsing of patterns with emoticon, ensuring correct desugaring of patterns with emoticon, adding tests.
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> Include code done by @vicente-romero-oracle (https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/pull/1884)

@lahodaj 
Your change (at version 316a980145ccd6892f20d9b710b52d86d81bc126) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1902#issuecomment-3749785978