Fields in HttpMethods cannot be used in switch

Question

vanillajonathan opened this issue 8 years ago · 9 comments

The fields are declared as public static readonly string hence cant be used in a switch statement.

Why aren't these declared as constants instead of static readonly?

Answer 1 · 2017-10-07T18:15:40.000Z

Can't do the very fast ReferenceEquals on a constant

Answer 2 · 2017-10-08T09:12:11.000Z

Can't do the very fast ReferenceEquals on a constant

Is this true? I thought string constants are interned?

Answer 3 · 2017-10-08T09:14:40.000Z

Not across assembly boundaries

Answer 4 · 2017-10-08T09:15:16.000Z

Anyway, this has been discussed time and time again, and is definitely a duplicate; #795

Answer 5 · 2017-10-08T09:17:13.000Z

Not across assembly boundaries

@halter73 says otherwise... #712 (comment) 😉

Answer 6 · 2017-10-08T09:21:01.000Z

FYI, literal strings are OFTEN interned, but are not guaranteed to be interned.

Answer 7 · 2017-10-08T09:39:22.000Z

It's hard to argue with Vance 😂

Answer 8 · 2017-10-08T09:42:47.000Z

As a guess you could use a pattern matching switch to use a switch anyway?

Answer 9 · 2017-10-30T18:04:33.000Z

Dup of a few bugs as @khellang correctly points out :)