From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-05 23:37:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!newscore.gigabell.net!newsfeed.hanau.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!do.de.uu.net!lnewspeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewsifeed01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewspost00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Jon Skeet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:37:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <+FWVg+noA0yk@eisner.encompasserve.org> <9fjfc4$qdv$1@news.fsu.edu> <9fjkha$re7$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au> Organization: Peramon Technology Ltd. X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.30 NNTP-Posting-Host: fw.peramon.com X-Trace: 991809445 reading.news.pipex.net 15024 193.132.195.125 X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8207 comp.lang.awk:2802 comp.lang.clarion:21185 comp.lang.java.programmer:73948 comp.lang.pl1:796 comp.lang.vrml:3531 Date: 2001-06-06T07:37:28+01:00 List-Id: Blaikie wrote: > > Depends on the language of course, but I think it is likely that this > > is the wrong solution. At some point, it would make sense to replace > > the case statement with a config file and some program that automatically > > generated the case code from the config file. > > > > If the language supported it, a jump table might make more sense than > > a case statement. Again the jump table could be loaded from a config > > file. > > well i am not sure what a jump table is, but if it were in Java and there > were corresponding methods to each of the cases in the swtich, i would use a > general piece of java.lang.reflection code to load the method based directly > on the string (or turn the variable into the string nescessary using maybe a > hashmap) Reflection would be an *incredibly* slow way of doing that. Better would be to create (at startup) one object for handling each case, each implementing the same interface. Put *those* into a map of some description, then get out the "right" object and call one of the methods of the common interface. -- Jon Skeet - skeet@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~skeet If replying to the group, please don't mail me at the same time