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Re: jdk7-relnotes

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From	Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:54:21 -0700, Travers Naran <tnaran@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On 28/07/2011 10:17 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk7-relnotes-418459.html
>>
>> http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/language/strings-switch.html
>
>Saves me a lot of if-else typing in a few situations.  Feels "wrong" 
>somehow; like somehow, somewhere, C purists are crying. :-)

     Someday, switch may be as powerful as COBOL's evaluate.  I really
have been spoiled by xBASE's do case statement.  It is so useful to be
able to use full expressions for cases.

[snip]

Sincerelyk,

Gene Wirchenko

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Re: jdk7-relnotes Travers Naran <tnaran@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 21:54 -0700
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  Re: jdk7-relnotes Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-07-29 13:30 -0700
  Re: jdk7-relnotes lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-30 16:24 -0700

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