I don't like this… Is this cheating the language?

Question

I have seen something like the following a couple times... and I hate it. Is this basically \'cheating\' the language? Or.. would you consider this to be \'ok\' because the IsNu

Answer 1

This is valid code, in my opinion (although declaring a variable and assigning it on the next line is pretty annoying), but you should probably realize that you can enter the else-block also in the condition where the length of the string is < 3.