[anjc]

As convoluted as they can be, what alternatives are there other than nested conditions, which are equally convoluted? Surely if you need to logically compare five variable then you'll be doing it in some variation of 5 chained operations.

[MrDosu]

There is a couple of ways to do it. From storing your conditions in meaningful variables outside the conditional to pattern matching and more. If conditions aren't the only branching operators.