Re: [DotGNU]Strange message error

[Stephen Compall]

"brunoacf" <address@hidden> writes:

>     public SomeFunction ( ) {       //
> ERROR: Function must have a value type
> sample.cs:7: constructor name does not
> match class name
> sample.cs:9: declaration of `.ctor'
> conflicts with an existing member
> 
> The compiler thinks that SomeFunction() is a constructor because it
> don't have a return type.

The given "function without a return type" syntatically looks like a
constructor.  Consider the case in which the programmer has merely
misspelled the ctor name, with the intention still being to create a
constructor.  The compiler can't tell the difference between "function
without a return type" and "misspelled named constructor", unless the
"return" keyword is used in the body, and even this is not reliable,
not to mention silly.

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