I wholeheartedly disagree. Linear functions like this promote laziness in variable naming (var a1, c_tfr, bvf, etc). This also leads to buggy side effects such as having multiple nested if statements performing a plenko-machine determination of code branching. It’s horrid. It’s unmaintainable. It guarantees that someone will have to rewrite it after your gone, because you will be gone.

This is the same as someone arguing for scrolls when books with table of contents and appendices are far superior.