C/C++ conditional return statements [duplicate]

Answer 1

Some consider it bad practice, I'm personally ok with it as it can be cleaner-looking code. You can also do it in this way:

foo() {
   int results = 0;  // good practice to initialize
   if (a < b) {
       results = 0;  // redundant, likely optimized out
   } else {
       // lots of calculations in this block
       results = 1;
   }
   return results;
}