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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Multiple Returns
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Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 14:09:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  6 14:09:08 1987
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> There have been several messages posted concerning code with multiple
> returns.  I am currently going through a two page routine with a return
> on almost every other line, and let me tell you, it is nothing but a
> mess...

It sounds to me like you have diagnosed the problem correctly:  the routine
is a mess, and probably would be just as much of a mess if the "programmer"
who wrote it had used a single return.  Nested ifs five levels deep written
by an incompetent are no easier to understand than multiple returns written
by an incompetent, I assure you.  A competent programmer makes either one
understandable, although my own tentative opinion is it's a bit easier with
multiple returns.
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