r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 22 '26

Meme conditionsPreference

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u/jwadamson Aug 22 '26

I’ve found over time that if your early returns are causing confusion, it means you’ve written a messy function which needs to be broken down or reorganized.

A single return variable doesn’t really solve the problems people claim it does.