I have also seen switch statements used (abused?) to do a similar thing. Since a switch executes the first statement that is equivalent to the control expressio

I have also seen switch statements used (abused?) to do a similar thing. Since a switch executes the first statement that is equivalent to the control expression you can pass true as the control expression, e.g.: switch(true) { cond1: return 1; cond2 && cond3: return 10; //etc } Not sure I'd recommend it but it works in a few languages :) Elixir has cond that does this nicely without resorting to strange switch statements: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/case-cond-and-if.html#cond https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/case-cond-and-if.htm...