On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 19:37:10 GMT, Stuart Marks <sma...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I believe this changes is useful and still actual: >> 1. improve code to make it easier to read. >> 2. performance should be improved a bit too > > I’ll see if I can get somebody to take a look at this. This seems like a reasonable change, which improves readability. My preference is to wait a little longer (hopefully no more than a couple of weeks), until [JEP 394](https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/394) - "Pattern Matching for instanceof" is finalised, then we can remove the explicit casts in many of these cases. For example: --- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/File.java +++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/File.java @@ -2191,8 +2191,8 @@ public class File * {@code false} otherwise */ public boolean equals(Object obj) { - if ((obj != null) && (obj instanceof File)) { - return compareTo((File)obj) == 0; + if (obj instanceof File file) { + return compareTo(file) == 0; } return false; } ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/20