avoiding if statements

Question

I was thinking about object oriented design today, and I was wondering if you should avoid if statements. My thought is that in any case where you require an if statement you ca

Answer 1

I will say the answer is vaguely yes-ish. Especially when the language allows some heavy duty functional programming (ie C#, F#, OCaml).

A component that contains 2 if statements strongly couples two business rules so break it up.

Take that as a very general rule of thumb but I would agree. If you have a bunch of if statements, maybe you should think about another approach.