flowchainsenseisocial, 17 days ago

@treyhunner Also, reject all "if" statements. #NoIfs

bugroar, 17 days ago

@treyhunner I suppose "return date1 if blah else date2" is out of the question?

treyhunner, 17 days ago

@bugroar It's an option! Though in this case the "blah" would be pretty long.

henrikjernevad, 17 days ago

@treyhunner @bugroar Nice post! I thought about this case too. In some languages (e.g. Kotlin) the regular "if statement" is in fact an expression. So then you could have return if (condition) { expression } else { expression } where { expression } can be any number of statements as long as the last one is an expression. This style further highlights the importance of the else branch as removing it would break the expression.