title: Why is it good practice to return at the end of a method
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36707/should-a-function-have-only-one-return-statement">Should a function have only one return statement?</a>  </p>
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  <p>A fellow programmer asked me why should we always return at the end of a method? </p>
  
  <p>We had both be taught to always have only a single return statement in a method and not multiple scattered throughout the code.</p>
  
  <p>Any good reasons for this?</p>