prefer-match

Prefer match over switch statements and repeated equality chains

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Repeated equality branches and switch cases encode selection as independent statements. Instead, you SHOULD use match to bind the selected value and its cases in one expression.

Reported

1function describe(value: int32): string {2    if (value === 0) {3        return "zero";4    } else if (value === 1) {5        return "one";6    } else if (value === 2) {7        return "two";8    }9 10    return "many";11}

Accepted

1function describe(value: int32): string {2    return match (value) {3        0 => "zero"4        1 => "one"5        2 => "two"6        _ => "many"7    };8}