No warning in VB.NET when function has no return

Question

Some comments on Stack Overflow question Why doesn\'t the C# compiler stop properties from referring to themselves? regarding warnings got me thinking about old issues that

Answer 1

It's part of the BASIC language. All basic functions have a return type. If you do not specify a return type, then the type is assumed to be object.

So the compiler can't warn you about a missing return, because it doesn't know if you skipped the return intentionally or because you were taking advantage of the default return value feature of the language.

From this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sect4ck6(VS.80).aspx

if you use Exit Function without assigning a value to name, the procedure returns the default value for the data type specified in returntype. If returntype is not specified, the procedure returns Nothing, the default value for Object.