Question about event handling

Let's say I use SDL (1.2 or 2.0) in my program to handle events, should I use callbacks or the good old giant switch statement?

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http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/observer.html

That guy is surely a retrograde moron. "Observer pattern" and all other "design patterns" are just a boilerplate, completely useless in Scheme and Common Lisp, which you should be using today. I.e. observer pattern was invented to emulates closures.