I recently reviewed the spec changes for patterns in switch, and found the
treatment of switch labels pretty hard to work out. Since this is really about
the design more than the specification, I thought I'd share some thoughts here.
Consider this early feedback on the Java 19 preview.
The
For me, there is a difference between a binding and a local variable,
is that bindings are the one declared inside a pattern and a local
variables is how a binding is transformed to be usable inside the boby
if the pattern match.
Our first (wrong) inclination was to treat pattern variables
> From: "Brian Goetz"
> To: "Tagir Valeev"
> Cc: "amber-spec-experts"
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 6:12:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Named record pattern
> Gavin reminded me that we are not finalizing patterns in switch in 19 (hard to
> keep track, sometimes), so we have a little bit of time to
