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I believe it means that you would exit the function without hitting a 
return that returns a value (here)

>    }
> 
>    else{
>        return name;
>    }
> }
> 
> Saying "Not all control paths return a value" - what does this mean, am 
> I missing something in my code?


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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