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Is it a good practice when method has no return?
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11/04/2008 21:29:42
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01310132
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01310140
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>>Good evening,
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>>I have some form methods that don't return anything (actually they probably return .T. by default, but it does not matter). The way I call a method like this is as following:
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>>=thisform.mymethod()
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>>Is anything wrong with the above syntax?
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>I don't see any problem with that.
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>When calling a method, if you need a return value, then store it to a variable. Otherwise, there is no reason to ask for a return value. And I don't see any reason, either, to specify a return value when none is needed.
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>Some methods that don't return a value MIGHT be changed to return a value, for example, to indicate success or failure. But that should be done only when it is needed, not because every method has to have a return value - which it doesn't.

Thank you for your input.
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