[angusC]

Hi - I 'm the author of this post. A few comments:

1) It wasn't my intention to create a holy war. There are good arguments on both sides. I use ifs and fors in my own code and will continue to do so.

2) Over the years I have developed a distaste for the overuse of statement branching - I find it distracting and I feel it works against readability.

3) I wanted to catalog a bunch of (mostly well known) alternatives to present as a coding strategy

4) I realize that not everyone likes such terseness of style and what is clear syntax to one person can be undecipherable to the next.

5) Use what ever works best for you and your team

(Notice how procedural this comment was :-) )