Re: thoughts on OO design for processing messages

H. S. Lahman wrote:

> There is nothing inherently wrong with switch statements. They
> represent a particular (rather ancient and honorable) form of parametric
> polymorphism.

Parametric polymorphism has nothing whatever to do with switch statements.
Nor are switch statements any form of parametric polymorphism.

Regards
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Adrian Hey

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