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> (...) instead of this kind of stuff that really doesn't improve life all that much for most development

There are comments in this very discussion praising this change due to how this stuff really improves their life as a developer.

Anyway, can you pass the link to your JEP with a proposal for "?." ?

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The Elvis operator was proposed for Java 7 and hasn't made it back in since. I'm sure you can put in the effort to write a proposal again but I doubt it'd stay up for long. I'm not going to put in the effort of fighting a committee that has probably already made up its mind when I can write Kotlin or C# instead.

Maybe Manifold will add the operator somehow. That seems to be the place modern language features that the Java comities don't like end up.

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