If you want to return nothing, then declare the return type as
RexxObjectPtr and return NULLOBJECT. This will only raise an error if
the method is used in an expression context. For example,
say x~'STATE='(1)
Would return raise an error, but
x~state=1
would not.
A VOID return type just didn't work real well with the macro
expansions, so the routines/methods had to have some minimal return
type defined.
One possibility I considered (ok, actually, I just thought it up) is
having a type like NORETURNVALUE that could only be specified as a
return value (not an argument). You'd still need to have some sort of
return (mapped to an int maybe), but then the runtime would always
force this to be a return-value free situation. That would allow you
to be more explicit that the method does not really return a value.
Rick
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Mark Miesfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Rick,
If you have a method that has no return when using the native API,
what should you do? I think return .nil, or even return int 0, but
wondered if you had something better in mind.
In particular I wanted to use a method for this:
::method state= external LIBRARY oodialog bc_setState
I'm not sure if there are any consequences of returning something for
an equals method.
--
Mark Miesfeld
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