return None

Fuzzyman fuzzyman at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 03:23:43 EDT 2005


Grant Edwards wrote:
[snip..]
> Personally, I don't really like the idea that falling off the
> botton of a function implicitly returns None.  It's just not
> explicit enough for me.  My preference would be that if the
> function didn't execute a "return" statement, then it didn't
> return anyting and attempting to use a return value would be an
> error.
>
> I suppose there probably is code out there that depends on the
> implicit "return None" at the end of every function, so it's
> too late to change things now.
>

Yeah - I frequently rely on that behaviour, but purely our of laziness.

Best Regards,

Fuzzy
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