Applying Table-Driven Design
What table-driven design means Table-driven design replaces sprawling conditionals with structured data. Whenever branching logic keeps growing, move the rules into a table and let the program look up the answer. The approach shines in state machines, permission matrices, pricing rules, and plenty of day-to-day backend tasks. Here are three lightweight examples that demonstrate the idea. Example 1: Rock, paper, scissors Instead of a long if/else chain, keep a victory map and let a lookup drive the full round logic: ...