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Re: Java blunders

From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Java blunders
Date 2014-08-03 11:31 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 8/3/2014 10:41 AM, Wanja Gayk wrote:
> In article <lqsl6k$46e$1@speranza.aioe.org>, thinbluernime
> (thinbluernime3@gmail.com) says...
>
>>>       IMHO Java would be a better language if `switch' were removed
>>> altogether, fall-through or not.  But that's just MHO, which (clearly)
>>> is not widely shared.  Meanwhile, I oppose anything that encourages the
>>> use of the construct.
>>
>> If Java existed in a vacuum, so one could always use polymorphism instead
>> of "switch", then maybe.
>
> I'd be interested in one example of a switch statement that cannot be
> expressed with if statements.

     http://www.mickeymantle.com/

     (For those unacquainted with the National Game of the United States
of Insularity: Mickey Mantle was one of baseball's greatest hitters,
renowned for both his power and for his ability to bat both right- and
left-handed, an uncommon skill called "switch hitting."  Mantle had his
flaws, to be sure, but there was nothing iffy about him.)

     :)

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esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid

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