JEP 441, Pattern Matching for the switch, is completed in JDK 21, following four previews in JDKs 17-20 (JEPs 406, 420, 427, 433). It finalizes the feature, addressing feedback from previews, and enha ...

This class: class Xyz { void foo () { int i = 0; switch (i) { case 18: { /* Break so we don't hit fall-through warning: */ break;/* ignore STRING */ } }}} results in a different output when you run ...

The readability, maintainability, and usability of switch statements and expressions in Java would be improved by a proposal to allow exceptions to be handled in the switch block. The current ...