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 think what he is saying or what he means to say is that he thinks it is best to avoid over-abuse of "tagging" and adding custom functionality to a class by several if statements when it better makes sense to subclass or rethink the object hierarchy.