Error: Missing Return Statements

[jondecker76Participant]

What is the proper “monkey2” way of implementing returns?  I’ve noticed that I get the Missing Return Statement error on any method that has conditional returns

The example below will give the error because of the conditional return:

Monkey

Method Init:Bool() If Not steps Return 0 If(steps.First.init=True) Return False Else steps.First.init=True Return True Endif End Method

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Method Init:Bool() If Not steps Return 0 If(steps.First.init=True)   Return False Else   steps.First.init=True   Return True Endif End Method

Of course, I can make the build process happy if I change it to:

Monkey

Method Init:Bool() If Not steps Return 0 If(steps.First.init=True) Return False Else steps.First.init=True Return True Endif Return true ' This seems silly to me! End Method

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Method Init:Bool() If Not steps Return 0 If(steps.First.init=True)   Return False Else   steps.First.init=True   Return True Endif Return true ' This seems silly to me! End Method

Is there a better way to to do conditional returns?

[JesseParticipant]

I think so too.

you can also implement it like this so it won’t look so bad:

Monkey

Method Init:Bool() If Not steps Return 0 If(steps.First.init=True) Return False Endif steps.First.init=True Return True End Method

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Method Init:Bool() If Not steps Return 0 If(steps.First.init=True)   Return False Endif     steps.First.init=True      Return True End Method

[jondecker76Participant]

yeah, I thought of that too.  Just kind of goofy.  I’m going to do a bug report on it, as it doesn’t seem quite right!

[ArjailerParticipant]

It’s not right at all – never seen a language do this before, so I’ve got to assume it’s a bug.

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