[dwc]

Reading this article I immediately saw a couple of drawbacks. Since then I've thought of a few more. But several of the points made were not lost on me. This article made me think a bit, and I'm still thinking about it. That's worth something right there.

To anyone out there who clicked through to these comments and is thinking it's not worth reading the article, please go ahead and read it. It's short enough. You may or may not use fewer if-statements in the future, but it might give you a better sense of why you choose to do things one way over another.