Question

Assertion: The return statement enables the exit of the program control from the current method.

Reason: If a method’s return type is void, it can still contain return 0 statement to return nothing.

Options

• Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion.

• Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion.

• Assertion is true and Reason is false.

• Both Assertion and Reason are false.

Answer 1

Assertion is true and Reason is false.

Explanation:

Assertion is True: The return statement is a control transfer statement. Its primary job is to stop the execution of the current method and transfer the program control back to the caller (the point where the method was invoked).

Reason is False: In programming (like Java or C++), a void method is explicitly defined as a method that does not return any value.

• If you write return 0;, the compiler expects an integer return type, not void.
• In a void method, you can only use return; (with no value) to exit the method early. Using return 0 will cause a compilation error.