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Discussion on: There's no "else if" in JS

 
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Sander in 't Veld

Alright, but then you are just hiding the if-statement within the is_odd method. There is no sane way to implement these types of functions, that take an integet and return a boolean, without if-statements.

I highly doubt that pattern matching can be faster than if-statements in any language, since pattern matching on non-enum types would have to be implemented using conditional jumps (i.e. if-statements) in the underlying machine code or VM code.