On Wed, 19 May 2021 08:00:12 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlah...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is a preview of a patch implementing JEP 406: Pattern Matching for 
>> switch (Preview):
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213076
>> 
>> The current draft of the specification is here:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbierman/jep406/jep406-20210430/specs/patterns-switch-jls.html
>> 
>> A summary of notable parts of the patch:
>> -to support cases expressions and patterns in cases, there is a new common 
>> superinterface for expressions and patterns, `CaseLabelTree`, which 
>> expressions and patterns implement, and a list of case labels is returned 
>> from `CaseTree.getLabels()`.
>> -to support `case default`, there is an implementation of `CaseLabelTree` 
>> that represents it (`DefaultCaseLabelTree`). It is used also to represent 
>> the conventional `default` internally and in the newly added methods.
>> -in the parser, parenthesized patterns and expressions need to be 
>> disambiguated when parsing case labels.
>> -Lower has been enhanced to handle `case null` for ordinary 
>> (boxed-primitive, String, enum) switches. This is a bit tricky for boxed 
>> primitives, as there is no value that is not part of the input domain so 
>> that could be used to represent `case null`. Requires a bit shuffling with 
>> values.
>> -TransPatterns has been enhanced to handle the pattern matching switch. It 
>> produces code that delegates to a new bootstrap method, that will classify 
>> the input value to the switch and return the case number, to which the 
>> switch then jumps. To support guards, the switches (and the bootstrap 
>> method) are restartable. The bootstrap method as such is written very simply 
>> so far, but could be much more optimized later.
>> -nullable type patterns are `case String s, null`/`case null, String 
>> s`/`case null: case String s:`/`case String s: case null:`, handling of 
>> these required a few tricks in `Attr`, `Flow` and `TransPatterns`.
>> 
>> The specdiff for the change is here (to be updated):
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlahoda/8265981/specdiff.preview.01/overview-summary.html
>
> Jan Lahoda has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Fixing various error-related bugs.

Thanks Evgeny, I'll take a look.

@forax, do you mean why there is "0" in:
11: invokedynamic #13, 0
?

The "0" is an artifact of how invokedynamic is represented in the classfile 
(invokedynamic, 2 bytes of constant pool reference, byte 0, byte 0) - javap 
shows the value of the first zero byte. That is probably not needed anymore, 
but there is nothing special in this patch, I think - all invokedynamic calls 
look like this, AFAIK.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3863

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