I wrote some Java code;
int quantity = 0; public void submitOrder(View view) { displayMessage(createOrderSummary()); } public void increment(View view) { quantity = quantity + 1; display(quantity); } public void decrement(View view) { quantity = quantity - 1; display(quantity); } private String createOrderSummary() { String message = "Quantity : " + quantity; return message; }
This code is working fine. When I press + and – buttons on app, it is executing increment and decrement methods. But in those methods, I used void. Which I learned that means “no return” on that method.
So, how can this code works as showing the quantity variable changed; although it was changed in a method which has no return statement?
I think it should show quantity as 0, because the changed quantity values were not returning from those methods. Where am I wrong?
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Answer
Actually not returning the integer doesn’t mean that it’s not applying the change (e.g: incrementing quantity = quantity + 1;
)
void
means that no value will be returned to use in the place where the function is called (for an e.g in a different class). But if you call it, it will still execute the code inside it.