return????

[mansi gupte]

What does return mean ?? if a method returns a value, to whom is it returned?/?


Thnks,
Piya

[Christophe Verré]

There's an explanation at Sun's tutorial. Are you using a book to learn ?

[Joseph Tsui]

the value will be return to the program that trigger this method.

[Campbell Ritchie]

public class Foo
{
. . .
    public int method()
    {
        return i + j + k;
    }
. . .
}

public class Baa
{
   private Foo fff;
. . .
   public void otherMethod(String s)
   {
   . . .
       int i = fff.method();
    }
. . .
}

Here the otherMethod method calls the method method in the Foo class and the i + j + k is sent back to otherMethod where it says int i =.