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 ...

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 ...

Try rewriting Listing 4 as a traditional C/Java switch statement, and you will get an idea of how much better off we are with Kotlin’s when statement. Also, similar to if, when can be used as an ...