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  • My style -- is this wrong? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Sifmole (3409) on 2003.09.17 11:04 (#24271)
    I don't understand why people keep all kinds of status flags and hold off until the end of a routine to "return". If you know that you will do nothing after a failure at:

          if (!$dbh) {
                    $ok = 0;
                    $msg = "Failed to get connection to databasename in GetValues";
            } else {
                    $sth = $dbh->prepare('Select * from table_name');
            }

    Why not just return instead of checking $ok over and over again later? I would do...

          if (!$dbh) {
                    return (0, "Failed to get connection to databasename in GetValues", \@a);
            }

    $sth = $dbh->prepare('Select * from table_name');

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