As the author 10 years later, I agree. A hard-and-fast rule to ban switch, as that rule seems to advocate, is silly and terrible. Switch has many valid uses. H

As the author 10 years later, I agree. A hard-and-fast rule to ban switch, as that rule seems to advocate, is silly and terrible. Switch has many valid uses. However, I also often see switch used in places where functional decomposition would've been much better (maintainable / testable / extensible). So I think there's still value in advocating for those switch alternatives, such as that rule's text covers. Not that I agree with everything there either. But, useful for discussion!