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Related: Within a function, I'm a fan of early bail out. While this goes against the usual advice of having the positive branch first, if the positive branch
by stuaxo 1y ago
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Within a function, I'm a fan of early bail out.
While this goes against the usual advice of having the positive branch first, if the positive branch is sufficiently large you avoid having most of the function indented.
- satyanash 1y ago> having positive branching first This is advice I've never seen or received. It's always been the latter, exit early, etc. Languages like Swift even encode this into a feature, a la if guards.
- Zanfa 1y agoPositive branch first is good advice when both branches are roughly even in terms of complexity. If the negative branch is just a return, I’d bail early instead. Negative first makes else-branches double negative which reads weird, eg. if !userExists {…} else {…}
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