Methods

[Vineela Devi]

When i was going through the language fundamentals i came across the statement "a method can declare a return type without having a return statement in its body ".
can anyone please explain this with an example justifying the above statement?
Thanks in Advance

[Ram Mohan]

well, i guess it could refer to the "void" return method which returns nothing, but technically falls under the "category of a return type which is nothing"
hope u get what i'm trying to say....anyways, if u could let me know the name / page of the book or give me a link to that particular article, i could help better

[Gabriel White]

If this was a JAVA for beginners course I wouldn't think that they were speaking of a mutator in this case. I am interested to know about the text or the html page that you are refering to as well.
Thanks
Steve

[Vicken Karaoghlanian]

The statement is correct, here is the code to support it.

public int aMethod() {
throw new RuntimeException();
}

[ January 20, 2004: Message edited by: Vicken Karaoghlanian ]