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Possible Duplicate: Where did the notion of “one return only” come from? Which is better? I see pros and cons for both, so I can't really decide on which one to stick to. Wrap in if ...

I'm trying to sort out whether this is just a personal preference thing or whether it's actually bad practice to do this one way or another. I did try to reference PEP8 first, and I did not see an ...

Take the following examples: public static String returnOnce() { String resultString = null; if (someCondition) { resultString = "condition is true"; } else { resultString ...

Possible Duplicate: Where did the notion of “one return only” come from? I got into a little argument with a coworker about whether a method should be written like this: public Thing getThing(...

I've often written this sort of function in both formats, and I was wondering if one format is preferred over another, and why. public void SomeFunction(bool someCondition) { if (someCondition) ...

I used to think I knew what this was, until I really started thinking about it... "maintainable"... what exactly makes code maintainable? To me, if code must be maintainable that means we can expect ...

Not sure how to go about this method to reduce Cyclomatic Complexity. Sonar reports 13 whereas 10 is expected. I am sure nothing harm in leaving this method as it is, however, just challenging me how ...

I sometimes stumble upon code similar to the following example (what this function does exactly is out of the scope of this question): function doSomething(value) { if (check1(value)) { return -...

Is a coding style principle - e.g. the single-exit principle - really a good thing? Always, or just sometimes? How much difference does it really make? Whatever your opinions, these are obviously ...

I have always wondered about this, especially in C/Java style languages. For example, consider the first 3 lines of this C# code: lock (serviceLock) using (var client = new ServiceClient()) try { ...

When checking for parameter consistency a the top of a function body, what is the best strategy? This one: protected void function(Object parameter) if (parameter == null) return; ...

I've been mainly programming PHP, and I recently started with C++. In PHP the return of a function can be of any type, so you can do checks like this: public function doSomething() { if (! this-&...

Apropos of What kind of bugs do "goto" statements lead to? Are there any historically significant examples? I am not that learned in C, and to me the puzzle is that a single exit of a ...

Lets say I have a function that takes an argument, does some action based on the value of that argument and returns false if there is no action for that value. (pseudo-code): bool executeSomeAction(...