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Code Smell 156 - Implicit Else

Maxi Contieri on August 06, 2022

We learn if/else on our first programming day. Then we forget the else TL;DR: Be explicit. Even with Else. Problems Readability Cog...
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Volodymyr Yepishev

But that's the bouncer pattern, no? Lot's of devs prefer it over else 🙃

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Jon Randy 🎖️

The functionality of the two code samples is different

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Maxi Contieri

Hi

It is not a "safe refactor"
And, as long as I can see. the two possitive cases are dealt in the same way