Should I use return/continue statement instead of if-else?

Question

In C, C++ and C# when using a condition inside a function or loop statement it\'s possible to use a continue or return statement as early as possible and g

Answer 1

One possible maintenance issue is that if a function has multiple returns, then it is harder to stick a breakpoint or tracing at the return when debugging. This is only rarely an issue, but when you do miss a return point it's a pain. I don't think it matters so much for continue in loops, since the loop condition and the top of the loop are both still unique.

Aside from that: what everyone else says. Do what's most readable, which depends on the relative length, importance, and likelihood of "some stuff" and "other stuff". The shorter, more trivial, and more unlikely a case is, the less disturbing it is for it to have special-case control flow.