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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Here's were some judicious use of goto may be warranted.
Just say no to goto.
I typically define a result variable, and progress through the method setting that variable as appropriate. If I have a longish chain of if/else clauses I indent them like so:
int result = 0;
if (condition)
{
}
else if (condition)
{
}
... and so on
return result;
If conditions are favorable, I'll use a switch statement instead of if/else, but I still try to have only one exit point (exceptions notwithstanding).
I also strive to keep my methods short and specific to the process/task described by the name of the method.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: keep my methods short and specific
That's the key.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I also strive to have a single point of exit instead of having multiple returns sprinkled throughout a method.
Boring...You're taking all the fun out of debugging!!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Yeah, I know. But debugging is exciting enough without adding multiple-exit-points sauce. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Tim Carmichael wrote: It all goes back to the maxim: write clean code; there is nothing wrong with indentation or else statements. Also, write comments on what the process is doing and why, don't assume the code is so well written its intuitively obvious what the desired result is. |
My code is always intuitively obvious, since I intuited it, until the next day, that is!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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if (Agree())
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}or
return Agree();
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I tend to favor single returns for debugging reasons, if it doesn't result in absurd code. However, quite often it results in code that is more clear.
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Resharper uses this as one of its built-in rules and will suggest re-writing your code to exit early as the article describes.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Tim Oxley wrote: Error handling is noise.
Got it, if a problem occurs then the whole app should die.
I wonder if he was part of the team that wrote the usb interface for the windows phone, failure to read and the whole phone reboots.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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The Federal Trade Commission has confirmed that it is investigating Facebook’s privacy practices after it was revealed that the company allowed Cambridge Analytica access to the personal data of some 50 million Facebook users without their expressed consent. This week in shocking news
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This week in shocking news
And which one is the shocking news?
That Facebook missuses data? Or that the FTC is actually investigating it? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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yes
TTFN - Kent
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Lets see, you put your data on an international billboard and are surprised that someone saw it??
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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People do seem shocked. I can’t think why. 
TTFN - Kent
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In which we describe how we decided not to cover the newest cellphone-cancer study. Go ahead and take that call
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The Internet Engineering Task Force has approved Transport Layer Security 1.3, a new standard that makes some fundamental improvements to how and when web encryption kicks in. It probably won't be hacked for at least a few weeks
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Continuous integration is becoming more popular than continuous delivery in large-scale organizations. O. I. C.
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"Devs are forced to use hypeword A before we explain what hypeword B is supposed to be."
The inventor of CD is an idiot. That's a professional opinion.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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if you're in the market for a new lingua franca, what you choose next might be influenced by your current language of choice The one you're getting paid to use?
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Quote: Learning a programming language is not hard. In fact, if you’re experienced, you can learn the basics in under 24 hours.
I didn't need to read past the first paragraph.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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By mimicking the brain functions of mammals in computing, Army scientists are opening up a new solution space that moves away from traditional computing architectures and towards devices that are able to operate within extreme size-, weight-, and power-constrained environments. In related news, I'm probably close to cracking codes too (never going to do it, but I'm close)
Besides, saying "Neuromorphic" sounds supah-smart.
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The mainframe is becoming more important to large enterprises, with the percentage of organizations running at least half their business-critical applications on these platforms expected to increase next year. Do I have to wear a pocket protector?
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A security report published by Webroot on the malware infections on Windows in 2017 shows some interesting results. Going by the numbers, 63% of all the files were found to be malware in Windows 7 while only 15% were found to be malware on Windows 10. When you set the bar low enough...
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Looking past "The Register's" usual hyperbolic descriptions: [^] Quote:
A pair of computer scientists have created a neural network that can self-replicate.
“Self-replication is a key aspect of biological life that has been largely overlooked in Artificial Intelligence systems,” they argue in a paper popped onto arXiv this month.
Does random mutation and selection of fittest really mean any form of reproduction consistent with modern (post-Darwin, post-Gould) evolutionary theory ?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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