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 agree with Vance that the IF is not good, because it increases the conditional complexity and should be avoided as possible.

Polymorphism is a totally viable solution at condition it's used to make sense and not to "Avoid If".

A side note that does not fit to your OOP requirements but the Data Oriented approach also tends to avoid the branching.