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Philip Kroupoderov
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Philip Kroupoderov
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why the return statement has no value?

He is writing return followed by no value. What does that do and why???

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Steven Parker
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Not all functions need to return a value. But you can still use a "return" to cause the function to stop running and return to the caller. A typical reason to do this would be inside an "if" block to end the function without peforming the code that comes after.

If that doesn't completely explain it, please name the function and give a video time index where the return is added.

Philip Kroupoderov
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Philip Kroupoderov
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Philip Kroupoderov
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Steve thanks but I found the answer by playing around with the code and that does not really answer the question. You can break out of a function by returning any falsy value: false, 0, null, undefined, Nan. When a return statement has no value it returns undefined.

Steven Parker
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Yes, but you would not use a "return" with no value unless the function never returns any value. Also a "return" will always end the function, whether the returned value is truthy, falsey, none at all (undefined).

Please name the function and give a video time index where the return is added if this doesn't answer the question completely.