TIL I was over-nesting my if statements for months

I spent 3 weeks on a project checking the same condition in 5 different places. Then my buddy looked at my code and showed me how to combine them into one line. How do you guys spot when you're overcomplicating simple stuff?

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nancy_davis16d ago

5 nested ifs seems fine if your code actually needs them.

hannah_williams16d ago

Yeah, "if your code actually needs them" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I've seen way too many people stack up 5 ifs because they were too lazy to refactor. Keep it clean or keep it short, no middle ground.

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