SAX2: DTDDeclHandler (minimalist position)

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 11:22 AM -0500 3/30/99, Bill la Forge wrote:
>
>
>Using objects for constants can also cause problems with persistent
>data, if you were depending on a singularity and testing with ==.
>

This isn't a problem with the syntax I've described because there is only a
fixed set of objects in which identity comparisons are the same as equality
comparisons.

The issue of switch statements is a little more serious. However, you can
always use if-else.


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