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Re: Simple if-exercises

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On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:07:23 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:

> On 4/3/2015 3:31 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>[...]
>> But in any case using Math.signum() looks kind of messy by the time
>> you've called the static function and then coerced its result to
>> integer:
>>
>> switch((int)Math.signum(n))
>> {
>>     case -1:
>>     case 0:  s = "Negative-or-equal"; break;
>>     case +1: s = "Positive"; break; default: s = "Defaulted";
>> }
> 
>      Note that the "default:" case will never execute.
> Math.signum(n) can return Double.NaN (or Float.NaN, depending on the
> type of "n"), but converting a NaN to int yields zero.
> JLS 5.1.3.
>
Of course. In the usual situations where I use a switch statement my only 
use for default is to trap errors, so this is best regarded as a token 
error trap. I did write a test program to check the Math.signum() 
behaviour which looped round something like:

for each command-line argument
  switch((int)Math.signum(Integer.parseInt(arg[i])))
  {
    case list
    default statement
  }
  print the result

so in those circumstances I'd argue that NOT using default would be poor 
practice.
 

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    Re: Simple if-exercises Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-03 10:29 +0000
      Re: Simple if-exercises v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2015-04-03 18:05 +0000
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