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Re: terminate a PHP script [message #172548 is a reply to message #172545] Mon, 21 February 2011 19:09 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Peter H. Coffin is currently offline  Peter H. Coffin
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:50:39 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:
> Because of the incredible convolution and depth of nested if/then/else
> you can get to. If I have (as it might be) a function that's scanning a
> string looking for and obtaining options and their values for some
> command previously scanned off the string, and I detect an error, I want
> to set an error code and exit right there. I don't want any subsequent
> maintainer to have to intuit that, in fact, from this point on nested
> 15-deep in else clauses, no more code is executed for that path through
> the function.
>
> That way I rarely get more than 3-deep in if/then/else. To me, it's all
> about readbility.

*grin* for me, it's all about comprehesibility. If you don't like how
deep you're nesting, maybe you need to break something out into a
function instead....

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