[mattmanser]

Not the same thing.

Randomly I'm working on some fairly awful code today that has the one redeeming feature that it divided and conquered as described in the article.

It made it fairly trivial to find the exact spot the problem was happening.

At no point reading the code did I think that assigning key values into variables along the way that were named to describe exactly what they represented and then all added up at the end was a personal quirk of the code.

That's a world of difference compared to using the fairly odd:

    if(null != thing)