Re: Multiple return statements in a function.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:14:28AM -0400, tedd wrote: > At 2:19 PM +0100 4/23/09, Tony Marston wrote: <snip> >> There is no such "rule", it is a matter of personal preference. As a >> previous poster has already said, if you want to leave a function early >> and >> ignore all subsequent processing it is easier to understand if you return >> immediately rather than have a mechanism to jump over the remaining code >> to >> a single return point. In the good old days we used to use the GOTO in >> COBOL >> to jump to the exit point, but then people found a way to abuse GOTO in >> very >> imaginatve ways. >> >>> The "benefit" is easier to read code. >> >> I think that an immediate return is easier to read, but what do I know - >> I've only been programming for 30 years. >> >> -- >> Tony Marston > > Tony: > > Don't get your panties in a knot. :-) I think in Tony's case, it would "knickers in a twist". ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster