java switch

Why does java not allow String objects to be used in the switch/case statements? Couldn't the compile invoke hashcode() on those strings thus producing a unique integer value to represent the constant in the cases?

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use strcmp
assuming that the strings are always nullterminated, which is not a clever thing to do.

What. Shrcmp relies on the same thing. So you can't penalize him for that, when you advise strcmp.