Bozhidar Batsov

Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good.

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I’ve always been frustrated with the inability to write a switch on String in Java. However the enum type introduced in Java 5.0 somewhat diminishes the issue. Read this excellent article on the subject.

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Java 7 now supports switch on String!

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