Programming preference - use else ifs with multiple return statements? [closed]

Answer 1

For a simple if statement without too many lines of code having multiple returns is no problem. However, nothing infuriates me quite so much as:

function doTemperatureCalculations(double temperature) {
  if (temperature < 20) {
    /* 
      Gazillion lines of code here .....
     */
    return "Very cold!";
  } else if (temperature < 40) {
    /*
      Another gazillion loc .....
     */
    return "Summer in the North Pole.";
  } else {
    /*
      Multiple returns embedded throughout ....
     */
  }
}