Allow primitive types for patterns #4506
Merged
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Fixes #4504.
The type of a PatternExpr has been represented by a reference type until now, which was correct before the introduction of record patterns (since a top level pattern type must always be a reference type from https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se21/html/jls-14.html#jls-Pattern), but now nested type patterns may have a primitive type as well. The type of a record pattern expr must still be a reference type since there aren't primitive records in java.
This PR updates the type of a pattern to reflect this, which includes making a necessary API change.