---
title: "no-else-after-return"
description: "Remove unnecessary nesting after a terminal return."
image: "https://strider.gempir.com/og.png"
---

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# no-else-after-return

**Default severity:** `warning`

**Configuration:** `severity` and path `excludes`

Reports an `else` when the final direct statement of the corresponding `if`
body is a `return`. Since control flow cannot continue past that return, the
else body can be moved out one indentation level.

## Bad

```go
if err != nil {
	return err
} else {
	use(value)
}
```

## Good

```go
if err != nil {
	return err
}
use(value)
```

The current rule checks for a direct final `return`. It does not treat `panic`,
`continue`, `break`, or a helper that never returns as equivalent terminals.

## Suppress

```go
//strider:ignore no-else-after-return
if err != nil {
	return err
} else {
	// Deliberately mirrors a two-column protocol specification.
	use(value)
}
```

Source: https://strider.gempir.com/lints/no-else-after-return/index.mdx