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		pythonaut_16 on April 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript onl... In that case you're not really hacking it. If you think about what a switch does and how it works, it makes perfect sense. It's just a bit unusual to do it that way.

cfv on April 2, 2020 [–]

Is it not though? By exploiting the conditions to evaluate to true == $CaseValue you're subverting the expectation that the choices all rely on a single variable, all the while breaking fallthrough and default.

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