Question

In lecture 3, I saw a piece of code,
if return
else return
else return
I've done a bit of programing before, and have always done:
int a=0
if(bla bla bla) a=1
else(bla bla bla) a=2
else(bla bla bla) a=0
return a;

Is my style of code (ignore the bad formatting) less readable, I.E bad code hygiene?

Answer 1

Are you asking "Is it better to just return a value or to set that value to a variable and then return it at the end?" I'd say in general it doesn't matter, though if there's no real reason to introduce a variable, then why bother doing so? Not having to keep track of that variable makes the code a tiny bit easier to understand.

(You can't use multiple else statements in Python, by the way. I think you mean if, elif, and else.)

Answer 2

Thanks for the answer. Sorry about the, else, else, I just wrote up a quick piece of pseudocode