On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Jason Massey wrote:
> An example routine to translate a number into [its] english equivalent
> was given (again, this is Java):
> static String convertDigitToEnglish(int d) {
> switch ( d )
> {
>
> case 1: return "one";
> case 2: return "two";
> case 3: return "three";
> case 4: return "four";
> case 5: return "five";
> case 6: return "six";
> case 7: return "seven";
> case 8: return "eight";
> case 9: return "nine";
> default: return "\nFatal Error!\n"; // should I abort pgm?
> } // end of switch
> } // end of convertDigitToEnglish
>
> In Python I'd just use a dictionary.
I'm no Java expert, but isn't Java's Map more or less equivalent to
Python's dictionary?
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Map.html
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