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

From: Anthony Borla (ajborla_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:27:46 GMT

"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bq7uc2$n6r$1@sun-cc204.lut.ac.uk...
> 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.
>

Indeed, I fully agree ! However, my response was tailored to the OP's code:
'relationalOp' was a 'String' type.

I *did*, however, mention that:

    'You can design a solution varying in complexity and
    sophistication...'

and your solution is, most certainly, in this latter group :) !

Cheers,

Anthony Borla