Linus' idea of "good taste" code

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On Wednesday, 26 October 2016 at 10:48:34 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> On a more controversial note, I sometimes replace nested blocks 
> of conditionals and loops with flat spaghetti code and goto 
> with verbose labels. There are situations where you can explain 
> straight forward what needs to be done first, second and last, 
> but special cases and loops make it hard to tell from "normal" 
> code.

Speaking of Linus, that's idiomatic in the Linux kernel for error 
handling.

I like using D's nested functions for simplifying code in the 
same kind of way.  Sometimes a tiny helper function can make a 
big difference.