RE: [PHP] Return or not to return, that is the question
| From: | Edward Kay | Date: | Wed, 30 May 2007 11:18:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Return or not to return, that is the question | ||
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> Just a quick straw-poll really:
>
> What is your take on using 'return' when you end a function, if you
> don't actually need to return a value?
>
> If you have to return say a true/false as the result of an operation,
> then it's an obvious choice. But what if all the function does is
> perform an action and then quit? Do you like to use 'return' at the
> end of it anyway, or do you just let it run into the closing } ?
>
> Or do you perhaps do a 'return true' at the end, regardless, even if
> the rest of your code never checks that value (on the basis that it
> may do in the future)
>
I like to have all my functions return something so use return true.
Edward