How does a switch break at 20 items? Any respectable compiler or interpreter should handle that fine. If it was 32k cases, I could imagine why it would raise an

How does a switch break at 20 items? Any respectable compiler or interpreter should handle that fine. If it was 32k cases, I could imagine why it would raise an error. But 20? Seriously? Often, writing more cases into a switch statement is way easier and less boiler-plate-y than abstracting it out to subclasses or a dictionary or whatever.