RE: method saying "no return statement" when there IS one

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:47:33 -0800


You have to have a value if your returning to a into variable what compiler
are you using?

Ken 

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Hall
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 4:54 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: method saying "no return statement" when there IS one

I tried that and instead of saying "missing return statement" it said
"missing return value".  I just put "return;" just before the final
right-brace of the method.

Have a great day,
Alex

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date sent: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:30:26 -0800
>Subject: RE: method saying "no return statement" when there IS
one



>If you have all the opening and closing braces the compiler might 
be
>complaining because you don't have a sure return.  This is not 
normal for a
>compiler but I don't know what compiler your using.  So you can 
try putting
>a return at the end of the function right before the last } and 
that should
>do the trick.

>Ken

>-----Original Message-----
>From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex 
Hall
>Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:23 PM
>To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: method saying "no return statement" when there IS 
one

>Odd, I put all the braces in my original email.  I opened the 
method, two
>for loops, an if statement, and an else statement and closed them 
all.  My
>bn, on which I wrote that message, must have not liked it that I 
put them
>all on separate lines; it seems to do odd things with punctuation 
just
>before a new line if that punctuation is not connected to a word.

>Have a great day,
>Alex

>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Fred Rains" <fred58@xxxxxxx
>>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Date sent: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:13:29 -0500
>>Subject: Re: method saying "no return statement" when there IS
>one

>>Hi Alex, You have several opening braces with no closing brace.
>Both "for"
>>statements have an opening brace but no closing brace.  Also,
>your "if" and
>>"else" statements have opening braces with no closing brace.

>>Fred

>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxx
>>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:46 PM
>>Subject: method saying "no return statement" when there IS one


>>> Hi all.  Yet again I have what to many of you is no doubt a very
>simple
>>> question, but it is not making sense.  I have a method that is
>checking
>>> collisions on a battleship grid.  It is an integer method that
>returns 0
>>> if a collision is detected and 1 if there is no problem.  The
>compiler,
>>> however, keeps saying that I am missing a return statement when
>I clearly
>>> have two, one in an if statement and the second in a related
>else.  Here
>>> is the method:

>>> public static int checkCollisions(int[][] grid){
>>> int i,j;
>>> for(i=0;i<grid.length;i++){
>>> for(j=0;j<grid[i].length;j++){
>>> if(grid[i][j]<=2){
>>> return 0;

>>> else{
>>> return 1;





>>> Have a great day,
>>> Alex
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