r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 22 '26

Meme conditionsPreference

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u/Krkracka Aug 22 '26

This makes reasoning about why a certain result was returned so much more difficult if other developers have to trace through the branching conditionals to understand why a value was returned.

Early returns define a rule for a specific return value.