It's considered a bad pratice use return to end a function?

Question

I\'m a PHP and ActionScript developer, and in some of my functions I use return to end it. Example:

private function lolsome(a:String):void
{
           


        

Answer 1

Nope. Not at all. It's often an important piece of control flow, in fact:

for x in someiterable:
    if somecondition:
        return somevalue
return None

This might come up if you were iterating over a sequence looking for something that satisfies a particular condition. If you find that something, you return it and prevent any further processing. If you never find it, you return a default value.