Re: Why can't switch be used for objects

1. Because it would be grossly slow.
2. Because the semantics of comparison are unclear (do you use equality
by reference, or use the Equals method, or do you allow IComparers,
or... ?)
3. Because if you need this then there is probably some other (cleaner)
way to do what you want to do... which is why I'm wondering exactly
where you need this switch statement and for what, in order to propose
an alternate design. :-)

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