it's the little things...

sigh. I found myself making a modification to a legacy Java app the other day and I wanted to use a switch instead of this convoluted if/elseif/else mess that was in the code. I drew a blank... WHY couldn't I remember how to do ranges in a Java switch statement?!

Something like Ruby has... (and this is simplified considerably)

 tempF = 60
 result = case score
   when 0..32: "Frozen"
   when 33..40: "Way too cold for me"
   when 41..55: "Too cold for me"
   when 56..82: "Brrrr..."
   when 83..110 "Now we're talking"
   else "Time to move"
  end
  puts result

Oh, that's right... Java doesn't DO ranges (gotta love it's C++ roots)