On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 06:08:13 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlah...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Currently, an enum switch with patterns is desugared in a very non-standard, >> and potentially slow, way. It would be better to use the standard >> `typeSwitch` bootstrap to classify the enum constants. The bootstrap needs >> to accept enum constants as labels in order to allow this. A complication is >> that if an enum constant is missing, that is not an incompatible change for >> the switch, and the switch should simply work as if the case for the missing >> constant didn't exist. So, the proposed solution is to have a new bootstrap >> `enumSwitch` that accepts `String`s in place of the enum constants, and will >> internally convert them to the appropriate enum constants, and then it will >> find the proper case similarly to `typeSwitch`. >> >> How does this look? > > Jan Lahoda has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > Apply suggestions from code review > > Co-authored-by: Maurizio Cimadamore > <54672762+mcimadam...@users.noreply.github.com> Marked as reviewed by mcimadamore (Reviewer). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/pull/81
