The Cost of Dynamism (was Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 14/03/2016 17:53, BartC wrote:
> On 14/03/2016 17:17, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 13/03/2016 20:12, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> BartC <bc at freeuk.com>:
>>>
>>>> Exactly why having ready-made solutions is preferable to everyone
>>>> hacking their own solutions to switch.
>>>
>>> A developer friend of mine once said insightfully that the point of OO
>>> is getting rid of switch statements. IOW, most use cases for switch
>>> statements are handled with virtual functions.
>>>
>>> The most significant exception in my experience is message decoding,
>>> where switches/ifs cannot be avoided.
>
>> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SwitchStatementsSmell
>
> I get it. The author doesn't like switch statements!
>

You clearly didn't bother reading the document.  I suggest you try 
again, and then attempt, just for once, to come back with some 
worthwhile comments.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence