Hey there,

Just going through Project 11, part 1 of Bookworm and i noticed in the code there's a return in ContentView. Was just wondering if there's any particular reason for this?

struct ContentView: View {
    @Environment(\.horizontalSizeClass) var sizeClass

    var body: some View {
        if sizeClass == .compact {
            return HStack {
                Text("Active size class:")
                Text("COMPACT")
            }
            .font(.largeTitle)
        } else {
            return HStack {
                Text("Active size class:")
                Text("REGULAR")
            }
            .font(.largeTitle)
        }
    }
}

It runs fine without the return keyword. Usually we don't need to use the return here. I hope to understand why return is used here.

hi,

i think this is just a consequence of moving from the original SwiftUI (when BookWorm was created) to SwiftUI 2. i think initially the body property did not allow @ViewBuilder syntax, so once you put real executable code into the body (e.g., if or let statements), then you had to supply an explicit return of a View.

hope that helps (even more, i hope that's right!),

DMG