Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> writes:
> On 7 Nov 2002, Neil Conway wrote:
> > If you have declared the function to return void, then the expression
> > can be omitted, and will be ignored in any case.
>
> I'm not sure how you translated the above to return is optional. I'd
> read it as the expression portion of the return statement is optional if
> the function returns void. Thus you can say return; for the return
> because the expression is optional.
Woops :-)
There might be a case to be made for actually implementing this (not
requiring a blank RETURN at the end of a function body if the function
doesn't return anything), but the original "bug" is obviously a case
of my misreading the docs.
Sorry for the noise.
Cheers,
Neil
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