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A comment on Ask HN: What change in your programming technique has been most transformative?.

Re:Ask HN: What change in your programming technique has bee... by newzombie on Friday January 24, 2020 @05:36AM (#22136950)
A surprising one is to avoid all kind of jumps (early return, breaks and continues).

A broader one: writing expressions as much as possible. Basically, it means avoiding unnecessary mutations (and jumps).

Then avoiding architecture. Thinking algorithms that process data (instead of "systems") has been transformative.

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Re:Ask HN: What change in your programming technique has bee... by mekster on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:36AM (#22138041)
Why avoid early returns? If something doesn't match a condition to process anything in the function, then it's cognitively better to return early and say that case should be left out before possibly doing anything weird in it.
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