• From: "Bill la Forge" <b.laforge@j...>
• To: "David Megginson" <david@m...>, "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:22:07 -0500

From: David Megginson <david@m...>
>Yes, but it's also no good having a named constant that you cannot use
>in a switch statement.  Unfortunately, Java is broken here, and you
>have to choose one side or another


Using objects for constants can also cause problems with persistent
data, if you were depending on a singularity and testing with ==.

Bill


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