Is there a benefit to using a return statement that returns nothing?

Question

I\'m refactoring a large javascript document that I picked up from an open source project. A number of functions use inconsistent return statements. Here\'s a simple examp

Answer 1

Using return without a value will return the value undefined.

If the value is evaluated as a boolean, undefined will work as false, but if the value for example is compared to false, you will get a different behaviour:

var x; // x is undefined
alert(x); // shows "undefined"
alert(!x); // shows "true"
alert(x==false); // shows "false"

So, while the code should logically return true or false, not true or undefined, you can't just change return; to return false; without checking how the return value is used.