How do you handle the disposable IF statements ?

Hi there,

Sometimes you need to write a conditional block that will only be executed once or for a brief period of time then the condition won't be satisfied again, like for ever.

An example for these IFs is

// User activationif (!user.activated) { alert('please activate your account'); return false;}

The idea of that residing code that won't be executed again has been bothering me for years. I'm kind of picky and sometimes go crazy about micro-optimization, but sometimes I just ignore it. However, I feel that there's a great design pattern that I'm not aware of that may make me feel better about it.

What do you think ? Do you share the same feeling ? and how are you dealing with it ?

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