[joecomotion]

I prefer to return as early as possible and I dislike unnecessary else clauses. And unnecessary braces. I especially hate really long functions where there's only one return but a bunch of baggage and nested conditionals along the way to pull it off. Like mullr said, only handy if your language doesn't support guards.

Most of the people who code this way that I've met don't do it b/c they're trying to be 'pure.' Most of them say it was coding standard some manager mentioned somewhere else long ago and now they just do it w/o thinking.