Possible enhancement: Concise return statements

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 15 13:13:47 PDT 2011


On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:05:31 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 8/15/2011 12:17 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> What is going to happen if someone adds an extra ';' ? Compiler error  
>> ("no
>> return statement")
>
> Such lambdas are often used with 'auto' returns, so you'd get no  
> compiler error, but a subtle in the way your program works.

So you're saying it becomes a void function?  This still is not bad:

1. Caller is expecting it not to be void, compiler error
2. Caller is not using the return value, who cares?

-Steve


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