This image shows six different ways to write a simple function, getOddness(): https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/6-oddness.png https://se

This image shows six different ways to write a simple function, getOddness(): https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/6-oddness.png https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/6-... Personally, my normal style is getOddness2(). I try to never have an expression in my return statement -- only return a literal, local variable, or class data member. Why do I choose getOddness2()? It is so easy to debug. When I write code, I am mostly thinking about difficult to debug -- control flow and local variables. I would like to hear about other people's style and why they choose it. Related: Does Google Code style guidelines (perhaps the most famous of such guidelines on the Interwebs) have anything to say about which version of getOddness() is best/recommended?