I used java after a long time and found out that unlike other languages java doesn’t support switch case with strings(only with no’s and enums). What’s the reason behind it? If other languages implement it easily, why not java?
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I used java after a long time and found out that unlike other languages java doesn’t support switch case with strings(only with no’s and enums). What’s the reason behind it? If other languages implement it easily, why not java?
This feature was implemented in Java 7 (which was released in July this year). Why didn’t they implement it earlier? Well J7 was really delayed because of the whole Sun acquisition by Oracle.
Latest documentation: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/switch.html