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From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Talking of void ...
Message-ID: <1407@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 02:49:37 EST
Article-I.D.: mhres.1407
Posted: Tue Oct 27 02:49:37 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Oct-87 06:19:10 EST
References: <1400@mhres.mh.nl> <31905@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Organization: Multihouse N.V., The Netherlands
Lines: 19
Keywords: return void cast
Summary: happy linting

In article <31905@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>> 
>> SHND_TYPE catchit (...) {
>> 	... some useful code ...
>> 	return ((SNHD_TYPE) 0);
>> }
>
>Why are you returning a value here?

There are two reasons to return a value: one to keep lint from
complaining, and the other reason is a matter of programming principles. If
a function is typed, I always use an explicit return value. 



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