Returning nothing with Void

In this lesson, you will learn how to explicitly mention something that does nothing.

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Void means nothing. However, undefined can be assigned to void. The operation of setting undefined to void is not useful per se. However, a function that returns nothing should be marked with the reserved void keyword.

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function executeFunctionWithoutReturnType(): void {
return undefined;
}
let returnType = executeFunctionWithoutReturnType(); // Hover the variable to see "void"
console.log(returnType);

If a function is not explicitly marked with void as the return value, then by ...