On 7/23/2012 11:18 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote:
In article <5006b48a$0$29978$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
<SNIP.
Even with a break, why bother continuing through the body of the function
when you already have the result? When your calculation is done, it's
done, just return for goodness sake. You wouldn't write a search that
keeps going after you've found the value that you want, out of some
misplaced sense that you have to look at every value. Why write code with
unnecessary guard values and temporary variables out of a misplaced sense
that functions must only have one exit?
Example from recipee's:
Stirr until the egg white is stiff.
Alternative:
Stirr egg white for half an hour,
but if the egg white is stiff keep your spoon still.
(Cooking is not my field of expertise, so the wording may
not be quite appropriate. )
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Steven
Groetjes Albert
Note that you forgot applying enough heat to do the cooking.
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