Strings in Switch

[Paul Benedict]

Joe,

> Such discrepancies and changes were long ago in a Java platform far, far
> away.  It is vanishingly unlikely that String.hashCode will change again
> in the SE platform because the "behavioral compatibility" impact would
> be too large; see

I agree the change may be unlikely, but why bet your compiler on it?
Since you are encoding the result of the hash **in the class file**, I
think it is necessary to ensure it *never* changes. Do remedies exist?

Paul