Turning to Remi's other comments: these are basically about interaction
of this feature with the two throw-related features that came in in Java
7 -- multi-catch and try-with-resources.
In Java 7 we got multi-catch; you can say
catch (E1|E2 e) { ... }
There are several problems with
One of the many reasons in-args should be effectively final.
On 12/14/2023 2:16 AM, John Rose wrote:
P.S. If we ever get in-args into patterns it gets even more wooly,
since those would be little expressions embedded in random places
in the case patterns, and would be evaluated at
On 12 Dec 2023, at 14:41, Remi Forax wrote:
… I don't want to be the guy implementing this :)
Your proposal is fighting against the physics of the VM, when you
enter in an exception handler (a catch block)
With my VM hat on I wrote something on another thread about
this. You can either
> From: "Brian Goetz"
> To: "Remi Forax"
> Cc: "amber-spec-experts"
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 12:04:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Effect cases in switch
>>> Exception cases can be used in all forms of `switch`: expression and
>>&g
Exception cases can be used in all forms of `switch`: expression
and statement
switches, switches that use traditional (colon) or
single-consequence (arrow)
case labels. Exception cases can have guards like any other
pattern case.
I think I would prefer "case
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 4:41 PM Remi Forax wrote:
> Your proposal is fighting against the physics of the VM, when you enter in
> an exception handler (a catch block), the whole stack disapear so you need
> some compiler magic to store everything which is on stack into locals
> before calling a
> From: "Brian Goetz"
> To: "amber-spec-experts"
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 10:23:09 PM
> Subject: Effect cases in switch
> Based on some inspiration from OCaml, and given that the significant upgrades
> to
> switch so far position it to do a
Based on some inspiration from OCaml, and given that the significant
upgrades to switch so far position it to do a lot more than it could
before, we've been exploring a further refinement of switch to
incorporate failure handling as well.
(I realize that this may elicit strong reactions from
