I prefer the second approach, but with curly braces.
Generally speaking, I return ASAP like you did to avoid nested code and big if/else statements.
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I prefer the second approach, but with curly braces.
Generally speaking, I return ASAP like you did to avoid nested code and big
if/elsestatements.