Deep nesting vs early returns

[rikki cattermole]

On 05/10/2018 8:23 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> I was in college during the height of the Java craze, so my instructors 
> highly recommended the deep nesting approach. This was because return 
> statements are control-flow, and control-flow isn't very 
> object-orientedy, and is old-fasioned and in the same category as the 
> dreaded goto and was therefore bad. So I switched to the 
> nesting-instead-of-returning style because it was "The Right Way".

"Terminology invoking "objects" and "oriented" in the modern sense of 
object-oriented programming made its first appearance at MIT in the late 
1950s and early 1960s."[0].

And this is why you have to be very careful with any sort of trend in 
programming. Because it was already done before you were born (assuming 
you began learning after 1990) ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming#History