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Re:Avoid Else, Return Early (2013) by RobertRoberts on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:00AM (#16679389)
It's not "religion" if there's a technical reason to choose one method over another.

A later comment on the SO post described how K&R can have maintenance costs because when moving things around it's more difficult to tell where a statement ends, and can accidentally cause side effects.

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Re:Avoid Else, Return Early (2013) by JoeAltmaier on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:16PM (#16679971)
Not reflected in the bug statistics, according to the post. So if the effects exists, its negligible.
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Re:Avoid Else, Return Early (2013) by RobertRoberts on Monday March 26, 2018 @01:16PM (#16680580)
>So if the effects exists, its negligible.

The only thing being considered was "bugs in the final code", not "time and effort in maintenance."

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