the difference between can and should...

 Today I saw some JS code that was like:
   const counterAxisAlignItems === 'MIN'
      ? 'flex-start'
      : counterAxisAlignItems === 'MAX'
      ? 'flex-end'
      : counterAxisAlignItems === 'CENTER'
      ? 'center'
      : undefined;

took me a minute to realize that was essentially a select case statement using the ternary operator. Though it's kind of more like rewriting if/else statements. But I'm not sure why they didn't use a simple lookup object - this is just a mapping and an unknown key will return undefined as expected...