Switching on float/double/long

[Guy Steele]

> On Dec 13, 2017, at 7:51 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> . . . the overarching principle I prefer for match is to ask the
> following polymorphic question:  "Could a value just like this case
> expression have been assigned to that switch variable?"  This, IMO,
> unwinds a lot of otherwise ad hoc special pleading.  It does require
> some ad hoc definition of what "just like this" means, but the rest falls
> out of prior JLS semantics.  Including the vexed questions which will
> be occurring to you, above, about Long vs. long vs. byte.
> 
> — John

+1

—Guy