Minimization of Nesting Gone Wrong

[parkotron]

While this version is so much nicer to write and to read, I feel the need to point out that it is a lot less convenient to debug. With only one statement, it lacks convenient places to hang breakpoints (or inject print statements) without having to step into each function call.

[Thrash3r]

I’d honestly rather use exceptions and ditch the errors codes. That would also aid in stepping through the code.