If I come into this code, I'm going to check this branch first, if it's not true, ah, there's a return at the end of that branch. If it is true, I do that, and then I've got a second test. If it's true, return I return, otherwise a return.

但是如果我们看看这里,如果我看这段程序,我会先检查这一部分，如果它是假的，啊，这部分分支结尾有一个。

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It says check to see if I'm in that base case.

这段代码是检查目前是否是最基本的情况。

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