On Tuesday, 2 October 2018 at 18:14:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Kate Gregory makes a good argument on something I've often
commented in code reviews: https://youtu.be/n0Ak6xtVXno?t=2682
I've found a good explanation for the reason behind nesting here:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/118793
The "single entry, single exit" principle seems to predate
structured programming. It was a best practice of a time when
gotos and other jumps were preventing the call stack to be
properly cleaned up or local variables to be initialized thus
leading to difficult to debug errors.
