So how does the final example even look with else's? I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make with such an awful control flow in the first place? I als

So how does the final example even look with else's? I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make with such an awful control flow in the first place? I also disagree with needing a comment, which is why I think not having an else in the first example is great. Having a return statement at the end of a function is obvious, and then all you have to do is scan upwards to find other return tokens. Especially because the final return need not be an error state.