Question that might show me up (return types!)

Firstly hello to everyone,

I wanted to ask this question before, but was always ashamed I didn't know the answer.

This can not be a valid method, can it?

Code:

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private string getString()
{
string thisString;
return anotherStringMethod(thisString);
}

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Of course this will compile, but there must be some danger in doing so, I haven't tried placing a try catch around the return statement - would the return invalidate the try and catch?

Nope, that's perfectly valid. If anotherStringMethod throws an unhandled exception, the stack will continue to unwind until it finds a handler for that exception. If you were concerned about exceptions being thrown from anotherStringMethod, you could put a try-catch in getString to handle them.

thanks for the info mate,