Many years ago, I took part in the development of a taxi-hailing mobile app that is still widely used today. I don’t know what kind of code they’re running now, but in those early days, the driver assignment code –if I remember it correctly– was similar in spirit to the grossly simplified example that follows. There are five levels of nested if statements in less than 30 lines of code. It doesn’t look so bad, some might say, but it’s not difficult to imagine how complicated this code can become with just a few more checks…
As a Jr Developer, I found this very helpful. Thanks.
You might want to think about it a bit more before putting it to work. The comment with the streams example is far, far better.
Yeah, honestly you should stick to if/else until you’re really sure you want to do something more complex.