At 8:12 AM -0400 4/23/09, Peter van der Does wrote:
I tend to put my return value in a variable and at the end of the
function I have 1 return statement.
I have seen others doing returns in the middle of the function.
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What is your take? And is there any benefit to either method?
Peter van der Does
Peter:
It's called "Structured programming" -- one way in and one way out of
a function.
There are, of course, exceptions where it might help others reviewing
your code to see what's going on, such as returning a null value if
the argument(s) provided are not suitable. But normally the rule is,
do not provide an exit from a function in more than one place.
The "benefit" is easier to read code.
Cheers,
tedd
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