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return statement
subject			fact

return statement	has purpose to exit from the current method and jump back to the statement within the calling method that follows the original method call
	has syntax return expression
	has type that is the return type of the method or a subtype of it
	is a subtopic of Methods
	is a kind of control flow statement
statement	is terminated by a semicolon
	should be not more than one line long if possible
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional

Kinds of return statement :

• return statement that does not return a value (3 facts)
• return statement that returns a value (3 facts)