> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Haworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 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

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