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pmontra
on Dec 13, 2022
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Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby develope...
Those one line returns are particularly handy at the beginning of methods, to validate or process arguments and return immediately for simple cases.
hnzix
on Dec 13, 2022
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Short circuiting is such a beautiful way of avoiding giant nested "if" mountains. I wish it was more widely used.
ilyt
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right but
if condition { return }
works well enough in other languages and shows actual condition (the important part) to programmer first. if that
if
and extra brackets is really too long Perl way is also option.
condition || return
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