The amount of code is irrelevant. It's about clean looking code that can be easily understood by a quick glance. Cleaner code makes it easier to spot mistakes, resolve bugs, and just have a better idea of what the code is designed to do. It also makes code simpler to edit or extend.
This is true, and that's why i agree with argv0, use if/esleif instead of your horrible thing is really much cleaner, more easy to read/edit/extend and i would have a better idea about what the code do with if/elseif rather than with something else.
