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The “Anti-For” Campaign - Matthew Podwysocki - CodeBetter.Com
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The “Anti-For” Campaign - Matthew Podwysocki - CodeBetter.Com

Recently, there has been an effort launched called the “Anti-If Campaign” in which they deride the use of if statements and instead, focus on Object Oriented Principles in order to create more flexible designs. Now certainly, I have a sympathetic ear to this cause as I’ve seen code that literally walks off the side of the screen due to nesting of if statements. Pattern matching to me, especially at the top level of the function is actually quite beautiful in a way, such as the implementations in Haskell:

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