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Re:Pattern Matching for Java by jnordwick on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:55PM (#14153564)
Just use another language if you want pattern matching so badly. Twisting Java to look like Scala doesn't do the language justice.
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Re:Pattern Matching for Java by RhodesianHunter on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:52AM (#14156178)
You act as if what op described must be the entirety of their code base. What if pattern matching is just a small part of a larger problem better solved with Java?
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Re:Pattern Matching for Java by adrianmsmith on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:42PM (#14160107)
It's not so easy to just choose another language; there might be hundreds of thousands of lines of Java already written. In that case it's better make the best of a bad situation by doing something like this, than not even trying.
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