One of the pet peeves of a certain code reviewer on a job I had some time ago was using "return" from inside a conditional. As a result, out of habit, I never return anywhere but at the end of the ...

So I have a C++ program that I'm refactoring from someone elses code. It has a File class object called File_C that's intended to handle all the file i/o for input files and put the data in files into ...