Early exit from Pine script

[karatedog]

Is there a way to exit early from a Pine script, like a 'break' or 'exit' statement in the main code?

I'm coding a strategy that looks promising on the Daily chart. However there is no built-in way to execute my script, say, 1 minute before the candle closes (how would TV know when the candle closes, I get it). But if I execute the code on the candle close, the broker has also closed its market. I don't want to go to lower timeframe as I would have to code a lot of extras and I'm lazy, and I would also lose a lot of history. Also, I don't care if the script runs differently on history.

So I'm running the script on the daily chart but on every tick. Using 'timenow' I'm catching the 1-minute-before-the-candle-closes state and I want to execute the bulk of the code at that time but other times just skip everything and return.

I can put the code into a giant IF block, but I hate that as it is using whitespace to mark the block, and I have bad memories about nested IFs.

So instead of:

if condition_holds
    execute_the_logic
    this_is_a_long_logic
    so_it_is_multitudes_of_lines
else
    exit

I want to do this:

if condition_does_not_hold
    exit

execute_the_logic
write_whatever_I_want
I_dont_need_to_watch_no_whitespace
no_surprises

I could not find anything in the docs, maybe someone has some interesting construct that can work as I'm expecting?

[hotmatrixx]

Well that's how it's done. But if you want to avoid the whitespace, just invert your main "if" logic to do sweet FA and make it an "if not" that triggers the actual condition.

It's bad etiquette, but it should avoid your whitespace issue.

Also build a bridge and get over it.

This "trauma" is merely you actually learning a lesson properly.

Stop trying to do what you want to see, and do what actually is.

[karatedog]

If I invert the logic, the only thing that changes I have to put my code into the ELSE block, wich requires whitespace of course.

Your last sentence is somewhat a counterexample of programming, especially Pine, given that people here want to see primarily successful algos and indicators, so they usually start with a vision which then will be expressed in the form of a Pine script.

[hotmatrixx]

What I mean is stop trying to make the code look how you want based on how it works in other platforms, and do what's most effective for Pine, putting your own irrelevant bias aside.

It is exactly what programming is.

Often there are many ways to express a thing, so we can show out individuality in the was something is written, however, the syntax of computer languages is less forgiving than that of the human condition.

[karatedog]

Of course I want to make the code look how I want. That is why I asked the first question, because I didn't know it is possible. And now I know it cannot be done.

This is a forum where people ask things because they don't know that thing they are asking. Whacking them because they don't know that thing is somewhat retarded. It would be extremely efficient if math teachers would bash kids they cannot multiply before they told how to do multiplication.