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On the other hand, there's also a common tenet that says I ought to avoid deep nesting of conditions and loops if it's possible and reasonable to do so.

The reason I gave a little bit more in this code snippet than is strictly required to understand the use case is because I think the fact that the for loop isn't really "tight" and that it performs a lot of processing is relevant to the style choice. To me, it makes the code feel somewhat sloppy and messy to have multiple areas scattered throughout it which bump the reader back to the beginning of the loop. In other words, it feels a lot like the good old GOTO that everyone loves to hate on.

On the other hand, there's also a common tenet that says I ought to avoid deep nesting of conditions and loops if it's possible and reasonable to do so.

The reason I gave a little bit more in this code snippet than is strictly required to understand the use case is because I think the fact that the for loop isn't really "tight" and that it performs a lot of processing is relevant to the style choice. To me, it makes the code feel somewhat sloppy and messy to have multiple areas scattered throughout it which bump the reader back to the beginning of the loop. In other words, it feels a lot like the good old GOTO that everyone loves to hate on.

Regardless, I've been designing some code recently which has me in a bind. On the one hand, I've been taught to avoid avid use of such statements because they make code both non-linear and more difficult to follow. They of course have excellent uses, and I'm not one of those puritans who says that they should be discarded at any cost.

On the other hand, there's also a common tenet that says I ought to avoid deep nesting of conditions and loops if it's possible and reasonable to do so.

Regardless, I've been designing some code recently which has me in a bind. On the one hand, I've been taught to avoid avid use of such statements because they make code both non-linear and more difficult to follow. They of course have excellent uses, and I'm not one of those puritans who says that they should be discarded at any cost.

On the other hand, there's also a common tenet that says I ought to avoid deep nesting of conditions and loops if it's possible and reasonable to do so.