There’s no point in forcing the overhead of a method call for a method that always returns the same constant value. Even worse, the fact that a
method call must be made will likely mislead developers who call the method thinking that something more is done. Declare a constant instead.
This rule raises an issue if on methods that contain only one statement: the return of a constant value.
Noncompliant code example
int GetBestNumber()
{
return 12; // Noncompliant
}
Compliant solution
const int BestNumber = 12;
or
static readonly int BestNumber = 12;
