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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 18:30:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 22:57 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:24:01 +0200, David Brown wrote:
>
>> def foo(a, b, c) :
>> 	if a :
>> 		if b :
>> 			if c :
>> 				doThis()
>> 
>> That looks unfinished to me.  So I will add a "return" at the end (with
>> a single tab indent, in this case).
>
> A redundant “return” ... kind of like my redundant “#end” comments, except 
> yours work in a more restricted set of places ...
>
>> Don't you ever just accept that a language is the way it is, and it is
>> perfectly useable that way?
>
> Of course not.
>
>> Or think that perhaps other people in the world know better than you do
>> about how they want their language to work?
>
> And vice versa.
>
>> Has it never occurred to you that the people behind a given
>> language - such as Python - considered various alternatives and decided
>> that making it the way they did was the best choice overall for the
>> language they wanted?
>
> Barring a few obvious stupidities, yes of course they were, and are, smart 
> people.


Subjectively, I prefer early returns over nested ifs:

def foo(a, b, c):
  if !a: return
  if !b: return
  if !c: return

  doThis()
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