Bug 3855 – Misleading error messages for return expression in void methods.

dmd 1.056 gives a misleading error message on invalid code. The error was not even reported in my previous version (1.045). Consider the following invalid code: class C { int i; void m() { return i; } } And output of "dmd main.d": main.d(4): Error: dotvar has no effect in expression (this.i) The error message could be much clearer about not being able to return something for a void method. Testing the same thing with a simple function: void m() { return 1; } gives the following output of "dmd main.d": main.d(2): Error: long has no effect in expression (1) Which is still not very clear.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 3746 ***