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Re: terminate a PHP script [message #172577 is a reply to message #172553]

Tue, 22 February 2011 01:16

The Natural Philosoph
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Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <slrnim5e3u(dot)2mh(dot)hellsop(at)nibelheim(dot)ninehells(dot)com>,
> "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop(at)ninehells(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> 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....
>
> Of course; I agree that if you're 15 levels deep you've got a design
> problem. But that's my point. Early exit helps avoid that so you can
> focus on the next thing.
>
> I have seen this sort of code, btw. Functions hundreds of lines long
> with more hundreds separating "if" from the corresponding "else". I
> suppose the writer could follow it, but then he was IQ200.
>
Nope, he used a collapsing editor, or more likely, the code is years old
and everyone has put in another few lines to cope with the issues never
addressed correctly in the original design.

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