This transformational magic requires some actual analysis of the code. Under the covers, Eclipse maintains an AST (abstract syntax tree) — the deep structure (as linguist Noam Chomsky would say ...

Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules Code, structure, sequence, and API organization entitled to copyright protection.

Fewer bugs: Since Java handles the type casting automatically, you avoid mistakes like ClassCastException s. In short, pattern matching makes your Java code simpler, safer, and easier to read.

Google trial ruled that the structure of the Java APIs that Oracle was trying to assert can't be copyrighted at all.

Thought the Oracle v. Google litigation fireworks were over? Well, if you weren't aware, during the copyright phase of the trial, the jury found that Google had infringed the structure, sequence ...