From a6e9a10873eca5e97a77abab95622aa58e304787 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Javier Spagnoletti <phansys@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:27:20 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] [2.3] [Contributing] Added note about empty returns

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Doc fix?      | no
| New docs?     | no
| Applies to    |
| Fixed tickets |
---
 contributing/code/standards.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/contributing/code/standards.rst b/contributing/code/standards.rst
index 2168129d7fa..97491888bc8 100644
--- a/contributing/code/standards.rst
+++ b/contributing/code/standards.rst
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ Structure
 * Add a blank line before ``return`` statements, unless the return is alone
   inside a statement-group (like an ``if`` statement);
 
+* Use just ``return;`` instead of ``return null;`` when a function must return void
+  early;
+
 * Use braces to indicate control structure body regardless of the number of
   statements it contains;