Is it necessarily bad style to ignore the return value of a method
- by Jono
Let's say I have a C# method public void CheckXYZ(int xyz) {
// do some operation with side effects
}
Elsewhere in the same class is another method public int GetCheckedXYZ(int xyz) {
int abc;
// functionally equivalent operation to CheckXYZ,
// with additional side effect of assigning a value to abc
return abc; // this value is calculated during the check above
}
Is it necessarily bad style to refactor this by removing the CheckXYZ method, and replacing all existing CheckXYZ() calls with GetCheckedXYZ(), ignoring the return value? The returned type isn't IDisposable in this case. Does it come down to discretion?
