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  3. July 2002

Re: First Free Format

Douglas Handy wrote:
> ...
> I wouldn't be adverse to the introduction of a SWITCH statement which had the
> purist implementation and presumably better performance, but I'm not convinced
> the performance difference is critical (or even perceptible) anymore.

That's why I mentioned in my previous note that the traditional fast
switch/case statement is nowhere to be found in many modern
programming languages.  But I don't really think it's because of the
lightning fast performance of current CPU's.  I think it's more that
the switch statement is just not as useful in an object-oriented
style of programming.  Rather than coding a switch statement with
multiple cases for each variation, in OO programming, you just tell
the object what to do, and it knows how to do it.

Cheers!  Hans

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