Re: Passing "<", ">", "=", etc as an argument to a method?

From: Stewart Gordon (smjg_1998_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:50:10 +0000

While it was 28/11/03 1:37 am throughout the UK, Anthony Borla sprinkled
little black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus:

<snip>
> if (relationalOp.equals("<"))
> doLessThan(value1, value2)
> else if (relationalOp.equals("="))
> doEquals(value1, value2)
> ...

Why not make relationalOp a number, and save the overhead of doing
string comparison?

Define

        final static int EQ = 1;
        final static int GT = 2;
        final static int GTEQ = 3;
        final static int LT = 4;
        final static int LTEQ = 5;
        final static int NOTEQ = 6;

and pass these values in.

Stewart. 

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