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Re: can't return value

From Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: can't return value
Date 2012-09-12 20:54 -0700
Organization Canadian Mind Products
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:36:41 -0700, "bilsch" <king621@comcast.net>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

> there is no RETURN statemen

you have to make sure there is a some sort of return on every possible
way to exit.  Look at both branches of your IF. Whether you leave
early or fall out the bottom of the loop. Make sure there is no way
you can even theoretically exit without a value.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light,
but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~ Max Planck 1858-04-23 1947-10-04 

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can't return value "bilsch" <king621@comcast.net> - 2012-09-12 00:36 -0700
  Re: can't return value Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-09-12 07:11 -0400
    Re: can't return value bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 22:15 -0700
      Re: can't return value Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-09-13 08:53 -0400
  Re: can't return value Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-09-12 15:32 +0300
    Re: can't return value bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 22:37 -0700
      Re: can't return value Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 23:17 -0700
        Re: can't return value markspace <-@.> - 2012-09-13 01:11 -0700
          Re: can't return value Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-09-13 10:53 -0700
      Re: can't return value Stuart <DerTopper@web.de> - 2012-09-13 09:45 +0200
        Re: can't return value "bilsch" <king621@comcast.net> - 2012-09-13 03:55 -0700
        Re: can't return value Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-09-13 15:06 +0300
          Re: can't return value Stuart <DerTopper@web.de> - 2012-09-13 20:53 +0200
  Re: can't return value Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-12 20:54 -0700

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