A Groovy switch/case example

Below is an example of Groovy's switch/case feature taken from The Definitive Guide to Grails by Graeme Rocher. I am not a regular user of Java's switch/case feature, but if it had been this way perhaps I might have.

switch (x) {
   case 'James':
       println "yes it is me"
       break
   case 18..65:
       println "ok you are old"
       break
   case ~/Gw?+e/:
       println "your name starts with G and ends in e!"
       break
   case Date:
       println 'got a Date instance'
       break
   case ['John', 'Ringo', 'Paul', 'George']:
       println "Got one of the Beatles"
       break
   default:
       println "Don't know"
}