Transform method does not return

The name of a method suggests the transformation of an object but there is no return value and it is not clear from the documentation where the result is stored.

Example: method javaToNative with return type void.

Related smells: Validation method does not confirm

Reference

Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol. “Linguistic antipatterns: what they are and how developers perceive them". in Empirical Software Engineering (ESEM), 21(1), Feb 2016. 104-158. 10.1007/s10664-014-9350-8