Discussion on: I've never become overly convinced that switch statements are that much cleaner than `if else if else if else if else`

For me its about using the semantics of the language to communicate as much information as possible to other developers (and my future self). Its the same reason I prefer map, filter, reduce over for loops. By using switch instead of else if, I communicate a more specific action is taking place: dispatch over a single value. It's a small thing, but its also easy to do and makes my code a little more compact, so why not?