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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:45:27 -0800
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On 3/2/2011 1:31 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:19:33 +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:
>
>> I've
>> been there and this is overly complex, not because Ada but because
>> issues I have descibed (quoting, slash/backslash) and this because all
>> this is *untyped* programming.
>
> BTW, my major objection to the design of Ada.Directories is that path and
> file name were made "untyped" Strings. That is not Ada!
>

I wonder what you would think then of the new Java feature (in JDK 7) in
which one can do now do a switch on a string literal?

http://tech.puredanger.com/java7/#switch

--------------------------------
Description: Allow switch statements to use strings in the case blocks.

Example:

static boolean booleanFromString(String s) {
switch(s) {
case "true":
return true;
case "false":
return false;
}
throw new IllegalArgumentException(s);
}
-------------------------

Another example I saw:
http://www.zparacha.com/features-coming-java-7/

----------------------------
swith(clientID){
   case "eStore":
     callEStore();
     break;
  case "Retail":
    calRetail();
    break;
  case "CSR":
    callCSR();
    break;
    default:
    invalidClient();
  }
-----------------------

It seems like it might be a convenient feature?

--Nasser