It's a bit of an unkind example as most would write the latter as if (obj instanceof Point p) { System.out.println(p.x()+p.y()); } But I can m

It's a bit of an unkind example as most would write the latter as if (obj instanceof Point p) { System.out.println(p.x()+p.y()); } But I can maybe see the value if you need to use x/y more than once. However in Java it's common to have getX() style accessors, for which this syntax doesn't seem that helpful as your variable would end up being called getX