Completely agree on limiting yourself reducing the nesting of code. There is more difficulty working with code such as if x { //... } else { //... } Than cod

Completely agree on limiting yourself reducing the nesting of code. There is more difficulty working with code such as if x { //... } else { //... } Than code like if x { // returns from this block } // execution continues In some legacy code I sometimes encounter very long chains of checks which nest 4-8 layers, which becomes very difficult to maintain a mental model of where you are in execution at any point. I try to refactor into the second pattern from above when possible.