While compiling the following:

// ---
public class X {
    public static void main(String [] args) {
        if (args __matches String s) {
            System.out.println("Broken");
        }
    }
}
// ---

javac complains:

/home/srikanth/tmp/X.java:3: error: incompatible types: String cannot be converted to String[]
        if (args __matches String s) {
                           ^
1 error

The relevant types appear transposed: It should say String [] cannot be converted to String