The Red Arrow

[357mag 2]

There is a red arrow pointing downwards next to the return statement. Never seen this before. Why is it there?

Edited December 8 by 357mag

[corneliusdavid 220]

It's Flow Control Highlighting. It indicates that execution flow leaves the block or function at that point. In this case, it's not terribly useful as the "return" statement is at the end of the function but if you had a switch statement with several cases and some of them returned from the function, those flow-control markers would give a visual cue about where the code goes. You control this in Tools > Options > Editor > Color > Structural Highlighting.