On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 17:07:47 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Your example is an exact antipattern from our data-oriented model: we would > want users to check the object type with `instanceof` (should be `is` in > kotlin) instead of checking these constants. I'm aware, this was just the first example I could come up with. > Yet I think we can consider promoting Constant Pool tag from byte or char, > short, or int to represent a u1 in case it goes over 127. Maybe just using `int` everywhere for consistency might be a good option too. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20773#discussion_r1790628903
