Re: Silly question
Re: Silly question
- Subject: Re: Silly question
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:00:33 -0800
On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 11:23 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
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At 5:58 PM -0500 12/20/01, Lance Bland wrote:
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> On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 05:15 PM, John C. Randolph wrote:
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>>> However, it is considered a bad practice to have multiple
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>>> returns in a
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>>> single function or method.
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>> I disagree with you on this. What I tend to do is something like:
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> I agree with John. My favorite is this:
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Most CS professors will tell you not to use multiple returns.
Most CS professors will also tell you to implement a factorial
function recursively ;-)
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As Ondra said, if your function can't fit on one screenful of
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text, it's too long.
I concur, but that's a separate issue from multiple returns.
-jcr
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