Method with a bool return

Question

I was making a method with a bool return value and I had a problem:

This works

private bool CheckAll()
{
  //Do stuff
  return true;
}

But this dosn't, the method can't detect a return value if it's in a IF-statement.

private bool CheckAll()
{
  if (...)
  {
    return true;
  }
}

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

private bool CheckAll()
{
    if ( ....)
    {
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}

When the if-condition is false the method doesn't know what value should be returned (you probably get an error like "not all paths return a value").

As CQQL pointed out if you mean to return true when your if-condition is true you could have simply written:

private bool CheckAll()
{
    return (your_condition);
}

If you have side effects, and you want to handle them before you return, the first (long) version would be required.