JCK feedback on "Strings in Switch" proposal

[Bruce Chapman]

Dmitry Miltsov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The JCK engineers have reviewed the "Strings in switch" proposal
> and found one issue to clarify.
>
> "14.11 The switch Statement" states:
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> ...
> Otherwise, execution continues by comparing the value of the
> Expression with each case constant. Then there is a choice:
> * If one of the case constants is equal to the value of the
> expression, then we say that the case matches ...
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It would be good to clarify what "equal" means in case of the
> String values. It would be useful to mention that in this case
> the result of comparison will be "expression.equals(constant)",
> not "expression == constant" as for other types.
>   
But if expressed exactly like that, it implies that expression will be 
evaluated repeatedly until a match is found, whereas I would expect it 
to be evaluated once.

Bruce
> We have no special comments on testability of this feature.
> The JCK team will develop conformance tests for it.
>
> Thanks,
> Dmitry Miltsov, JCK engineer
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