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In article <42q81a$s2t@rdsunx.crd.ge.com>, volpe@bart.crd.ge.com (Christopher R. Volpe) writes
: Notice how the diagnostics grow further and further away from the test which
: causes them to be produced? This is what I find difficult to follow. I don't
: know about you, but I've shot myself in the foot on more than one occasion as
: a result of having one too many or one too few closing braces deeply nested.
: I find it much easier to follow code that doesn't have five levels of
: indentation.  

You hav a point, but there is no need for the error-reporting to grow bad:

void manipulate_the_windows(Window *top)
{
  Window *A, *B, *C;

  if (top == NULL) {
    printf("Error: Top is NULL\n");
  }
  else 
  {
    do_something_with_window(top);
    A = get_subwindow(top);

    if (A == NULL) {
      printf("Error: A is NULL\n");
    }
    else
    {
      do_something_different_with_window(A);
      B = get_subwindow(A);

      if (B == NULL) {
        printf("Error: B is NULL\n");
      }
      else
      {
        do_something_with_window(B);
        C = get_subwindow(B);

        if (C == NULL) {
          printf("Error: C is NULL\n");
        }
	else
        {
          /* All windows I'm looking for are good, so do it */
          do_something_weird_with_four_windows(top,A,B,C);
        }
      }
    }
  }
}