alice-teacher EVENTS vs Return Functions

[Elaine Demeter]

A few of my students redid the "Learning to Program with Alice" exercise of Zeus zapping the philosophers by using multiple event statements instead of using a boolean return function. 

They thought it was "logically" easier to to check for each philosopher (ex: when the mouse is clicked on "SOCRATES") as an event rather than by creating the return function with all of the IF statements. Is one manner was more preferable or efficient than the other?

Elaine
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