Primitive type patterns and conversions

Posted on March 1, 2021

Right now, we've spent almost all our time on patterns whose targets are reference types (type patterns, record patterns, array patterns, deconstruction patterns). It's getting to be time to nail down (a) the semantics of primitive type patterns, and (b) the conversions-and-contexts (JLS 5) rules…

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