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Re: void

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From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Date	Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:55:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:27:15 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:

> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>The result of a method declaration either declares the type of value
>>that the method returns (the return type), or uses the keyword void to
>>indicate that the method does not return a value.
> 
>   Some people hesitate to call »void« a type because types are types of
>   /values/, they think, and there is no value with the type »void«.
>
I'd hesitate too, because in Java its used to make it explicit that a 
method does not return anything.


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