RE: [PHP] Best practice question

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Haworth [mailto:jhaworth@witanjardine.co.uk] > Sent: 19 September 2002 18:18 > > What are peoples' thoughts on "one should always return a value from a > function, even if it's always going to be true"? Unprintable!! There's no point in returning a value if there's no sensible value to return. Confusion can arise because PHP uses "function" for what, in some other languages, are distinguished into "functions" (which must return a value) and "subroutines" (which cannot). Anyone insisting that a function must return a result have probably been exposed only (or primarily) to such languages ;-Z !! Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@lmu.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211