Received: by 10.66.82.37 with SMTP id f5mr496819pay.17.1347517067764; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.134.129 with SMTP id pk1mr274733pbb.13.1347517067748; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!169.228.66.3.MISMATCH!ihnp4.UCSD.Edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!4no5638068pbn.1!news-out.google.com!t10ni4303pbh.0!nntp.google.com!r4no5637827pbs.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:17:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.164.137.214; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.164.137.214 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <127f013d-c689-47f9-bb69-4e558d072d61@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: can't return value From: Lew Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:17:47 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:18728 bilsch wrote: > OK. Now I see what Jukka meant by initializing to NULL. But I don't > know what exception to throw for 'misssing return statement'. Also I > don't know how to put it in. That's a meaningless request. You can't throw an exception if the program cannot run, or even compile. Once you fix the compilation error, you won't be missing a 'return'. And there are no 'RETURN' statements in Java. If you read the Java tutorials on the Oracle site, they explain the basics of Java syntax and what constitutes a legal Java program. -- Lew