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On 9/12/2012 11:17 PM, Lew wrote:
> 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.

>
> And there are no 'RETURN' statements in Java.


Not sure where this came from, I didn't see anyone upthread quote return 
as 'RETURN'.  However, the null literal in Java is properly spelled 
'null', not NULL.  Perhaps that's what you meant to comment on.