Golo offers a versatile case construction for conditional branching. It may be used in place of multiple nested if / else statements, as in:

function what = |obj| {
  case {
    when obj oftype String.class {
      return "String"
    }
    when obj oftype Integer.class {
      return "Integer"
    }
    otherwise {
      return "alien"
    }
  }
}

A case statement requires at least 1 when clause and a mandatory otherwise clause. Each clause is being associated with a block. It is semantically equivalent to the corresponding if / else chain:

function what = |obj| {
  if obj oftype String.class {
    return "String"
  } else if obj oftype Integer.class {
    return "Integer"
  } else {
    return "alien"
  }
}