On 5/3/2011 8:50, Warp wrote:
>    What's wrong with:

The "else" doesn't end the function, and I tend to have several of these in 
a row, and sometimes it's inside a loop, etc.

>    (Structured programming purists would recommend doing it like that
> because there's no early return.)

I could restructure things, sure, but then it's even more verbose and unlike 
my initial thought processes.  Structured programming wouldn't let me return 
a value from the middle of the function either.  It's the asymmetry between 
a return after a void call and a return after a value-producing call that is 
ugly.


(I had to giggle yesterday when I added an "else break" as the last 
statement of a do-while loop, too.)

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    driving without turn signals."

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