Re: switch using strings

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
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Thu, 3 Mar 2011 22:30:39 +0000
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Mike Schilling wrote:

"javax.swing.JSnarker" <gharriman@boojum.mit.edu> wrote in message
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On 02/03/2011 11:05 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:

On 3/2/2011 10:42 PM, javax.swing.JSnarker wrote:

I must wonder why whoever wrote that code didn't just use
AtomicInteger...


... for which there's no autoboxing. The prosecution rests.


1. The language designers *could* have at least provided auto*un*boxing
   for that class.

2. The language designers *could* have provided ++ overloading and
   other overloaded operators for that class, as they overloaded +
   for String.


Not and kept it immutable. I???d probably have outlawed ++, +=, etc.


+1

Alternatively, i might do what Python does, and define a += b as shorthand
for a = a + b. Then ++a as a = a + 1.

tom

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