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Re: Help understanding methods

From Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Help understanding methods
Date 2014-07-27 18:49 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 7/27/2014 18:19, Scott Dunning wrote:
>
>> The return statement ends the code path so the System.out line can never
>> be reached.
>>
>> The second error is because there is not a return statement as the last
>> thing in the method.
>>
>> To fix it: move the print statement to the main method
>>
>> That should do it.
>>
> Awesome, thanks Knute!
>
> I have a couple other questions about this if you guys don't mind.
>
> What I'm a little unclear about is when calling the function why I need
> maxValue? I kinda just added that because of other methods I've seen.
> Why isn't (like python) I'm just calling the method like this...
> max3(a, b, c);?
>
> Why do I need a new (..variable I guess)?

You don't.

System.out.println(max3(1,2,3));

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Knute Johnson

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Help understanding methods Scott Dunning <scottwd01@gmail.com> - 2014-07-27 17:46 -0700
  Re: Help understanding methods Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-07-27 18:13 -0700
    Re: Help understanding methods Scott Dunning <scottwd01@gmail.com> - 2014-07-27 18:19 -0700
      Re: Help understanding methods Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-07-27 18:49 -0700
        Re: Help understanding methods Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-07-27 21:36 -0700
  Re: Help understanding methods Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-07-28 01:18 +0000
  Re: Help understanding methods Scott Dunning <scottwd01@gmail.com> - 2014-07-27 18:56 -0700
    Re: Help understanding methods "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-07-28 12:07 +0100
      Re: Help understanding methods "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-07-28 12:44 +0100
  Re: Help understanding methods Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-07-28 07:20 -0700
  Re: Help understanding methods Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-07-28 21:29 +0200

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