How to use greater than or equal in a switch statement

Question

What is the best way to check if variable is bigger than some number using switch statement? Or you reccomend to use if-else? I found such an example:

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Answer 1

You're better off with the if statements; the switch approach is much less clear, and in this case, your switch approach is objectively wrong. The contract for Comparable#compareTo does not require returning -1 or 1, just that the value of the returned int be negative or positive. It's entirely legitimate for compareTo to return -42, and your switch statement would drop the result.