That's not equivalent. == on the ctor and instanceof on the instance
are not the same operation.
-bob
On Feb 16, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Ralf Bokelberg wrote:
> Here is another, more standard version:
>
> switch(model.ctor){
> case DivideSentenceStep1:
> case DivideSentenceStep2:
>
> }
>
> All you need to do is setting ctor to the real constructor of your
> class. But on the other hand case by type is bad smell anyway, maybe
> your classes should implement what's in the case.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf.
>
>
>
> Dan Shryock wrote:
>> Nope, you're not missing anything, that was exactly my point because
>> that's all people are getting by using the switch statement in the
>> way
>> that they are. The syntax that I suggested is actually the only
>> way of
>> doing that sort of logic in xsl and jstl (using xml format of
>> course).
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On 2/16/06, *Scott Hyndman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> That appears to be an "if, else if, else" statement with
>> different
>> words...and a seemingly unnecessary outer block (the choose).
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on behalf of Dan Shryock
>> Sent: Thu 2/16/2006 11:01 AM
>> To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [osflash] switch - case
>>
>> IMHO it is an abuse simply because the syntax isn't necessarily
>> obvious for
>> someone who expects a case inside of a switch to match the
>> param to the
>> switch. Maybe we should all start lobbying the major c based
>> languages to
>> support a syntax like this ;)
>>
>> choose{
>> when(bla){
>> //...
>> }
>> when(bla2){
>> //...
>> }
>> otherwise{
>> //...
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On 2/16/06, Evan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm confused about you think that's an abuse of switch? That's a
>> valid use
>>> that's been used for YEARS in C programming, it's nothing new.
>>>
>>> -Evan
>>>
>>> On 2/15/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 15, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Jos Yule wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ralf Bokelberg wrote:
>>>>>> You can do it like this
>>>>>>
>>>>>> switch( true){
>>>>>> case (model instanceof DivideSentenceStep1):
>>>>>> //...
>>>>>> case (model instanceof DivideSentenceStep2):
>>>>>> //...
>>>>>> default:
>>>>>> //...
>>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> That is very clever.
>>>>
>>>> Why the heck would you want to abuse switch like that?
>>>>
>>>> if (mode instanceof ...) {
>>>> // ...
>>>> } else if (mode instanceof ...) {
>>>> // ...
>>>> } else if (mode instanceof ...) {
>>>> // ...
>>>> } else {
>>>> // ...
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> -bob
>>>>
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