Selection statement -"switch-case"

Question

the implicit boolean condition in a switch statement is equality - i.e it tries to match the expression with a value.
My question is this: Is there any other way to implement the Switch statement ?

Answer 1

The old for loops never bothered me, really. The
thing that bugs me most of auto-boxing. combine that
with generics (I never had a major problem with
typeless collections) and I find it annoying.The old for loop never bothered me, either, until I started using the new for loop. Now it makes my fingers tired and Iterator starts to seem like a code smell. Untyped collections always bothered me. Casting is guessing.
and I've already
found a really good use for annotations.admittedly i've never looked into this feature...
what do you use it for?I used them in a SAX parsing tool to map XML elements to Java methods. You write a class with methods like this:
@XmlElementPath("statistics.player.team.name")
public void consumeTeamName(XmlElement teamNameElement) {
}And pass an instance of that class to my document reader. Every XML element with a path that matches the one defined in the annotation will trigger a call to that method. "teamNameElement" contains all of the info about that element.
Before annotations I used to keep that info in a properties file. Annotations removed redundancy by letting me map the method to an element path right in the code.
What don't you like about the direction Java seemsto
be going in?it just seems to have become bloated and
'non-simple'.I think that's inevitable. You can still use it in a simple manner, though. There's nothing mandatory about the extensions.
An anecdotal example is if i go to try and read the
API docs now (for 1.5) i'm constantly distracted by a
myriad of angled brackets, E's, etc. I find it very
hard to find what i'm looking for. So much so that
when I do need to look up something in the API I go
to the 1.4.2 version first (even though I'm using
1.5).Once you get used to them those angle brackets are useful. They look so much like the C++ brackets that it wasn't hard for me to get used to them, I think.