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Asked: 2026-06-14T13:29:49+00:00

I tend to think that most of the time that variable returning methods are

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I tend to think that most of the time that variable returning methods are invoked to assign the return value to a variable, e.g.:

return1 = object.DoSomething();

Nevertheless, Apart from executing the method: What happens when a returning method is invoked and the return value is not assigned to a variable? e.g:

object.DoSomething();

Is this a good practice? Where does the return goes?

JB Nizet made a remarkable comment stating that methods are implemented for most cases. Kind of explains why this situation occurs often.

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    I think this is valid. Unless you have a need to use the return value further down, it is better to ignore (You can save from code review tools flag as un-used variables).

    Method execution and flow stays same, only thing is you are ignoring return value.

    It is good practice or not depends on situation, for example if you have requirement like how many rows update on executing query, you need to capture return value, but most of the times developers ignore this because they don’t need to track how many records were updated.

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