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Refactor Switch to Dictionary

published 1243 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes ago posted by

KodefuGuru 1246 days, 6 hours, 38 minutes ago

In my post on Z3, I created an extension method for proving an equation. This extension method used a switch statement to analyze a result and return a string. This is a bad practice: the mapping of one type to another is trapped in code. What if I wanted to move this mapping to a configuration file, a resource file, or a database? Even if I didn’t want to do that, I feel an imperative switch statement isn’t as readable as a declarative statement. Favor Declarative over Imperative. Below is the original ...