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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 { ...

In discussions about whether to cast the result of malloc or not when coding C, one common argument is that if you cast the result then you can compile your C code with a C++ compiler. Why would one ...

I'd like to see if there has been any precedent on alternatives to nested-ifs--particularly for error-code returns. My workplace requires one return per function, so I cannot early exit. Here is some ...

Maybe that's simple, but I'm a little confused. I have such a Ruby code: def my_function(found_objects) # ... if found_objects.second return CoreObjectFactory.get_object(found_objects.second,...

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-&...