[enriquto]

> they're obsolete unless you just prefer their syntax.

This is a good point.

Sometimes I prefer the (ugly) syntax of switches than that of conditionals. The reason is that a chain of conditionals is non-symmetrical (there's no condition for the first "case"), while a switch is formally invariant to permutation of the cases. I have even seen shit like this:

    if (false) ;
    else if (c == 1) { first case ; }
    else if (c == 2) { second case; }
    ...

just to preserve the symmetry along the cases.

[vortico]

Are you talking about the `else` being non-symmetric? You don't need it at all. I do this.

  if (c == 1) { first case ; }
  if (c == 2) { second case; }

[enriquto]

...and hereby I give back my programming license and go back to civil life.

[pintxo]

This might result in another fallthrough scenario though, wouldn't it?

[vortico]

No, because `c` can't be 1 and 2 at the same time.

[pintxo]

In this specific example. But you cannot rule it out in general.