Hehe - I agree actually. I hate the practice myself. While the result is the same, in my case it's actually not a question of being perverted by "textspeaking", as I rarely ever send a text (10-20 a year perhaps), but more an old habit from not quite knowing how to spell a few words (english not being my native language). As I said, I hate the practice myself, so I really try to catch my self - But once in a while you can catch me in slipping one of the following in. ofc - Of course ppl - People (no idea how that one got added to my bad habit list...) def/deffo - Definitely (And I'm sad to say it's not more than maybe 3-4 years ago I learned it's not spelled "definatly"...) Theres probably a couple more, but that's what I can think of at the top of my head. So yeah - I know. And I try :)

In my opinion, a switch on a string value is definitely a code smell. But using if/else or the ternary operator simply to avoid a switch is worse.

Come now CP... No takers at all?