Epic Answer - Avoiding If statements

It's easy - use switch/case statements!<p>But seriously, isn't it true that Smalltalk doesn't have if statements?

His idea in the second edit is similar to what is done with a lot of methods in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch and so on: <a href="http://cocoadev.com/wiki/MethodSwizzling" rel="nofollow">http://cocoadev.com/wiki/MethodSwizzling</a>

Wouldn't that be considered a state machine? I've done something with an audio player. Each state was a different class.