Sad is definitely overkill here, especially for such a short snippet, but personally I prefer avoiding nested conditionals and else statements in general. Here'

Sad is definitely overkill here, especially for such a short snippet, but personally I prefer avoiding nested conditionals and else statements in general. Here's a fork that keeps conditional clauses to one line, and I personally find much more readable - https://gist.github.com/3029246 https://gist.github.com/3029246 (disclaimer- not tested at all)