pylint #3184 PyLint crashes when encountering "return outside function" [resolved]

Marteen reported :

If I run PyLint on the following program:

return

It crashes like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pylint", line 4, in ?
    lint.Run(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 847, in
__init__
    linter.check(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 481, in
check
    self.check_file(filepath, modname, checkers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 495, in
check_file
    astng = self._check_file(filepath, modname, checkers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 519, in
_check_file
    self.check_astng_module(astng, checkers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 577, in
check_astng_module
    self.astng_events(astng, [checker for checker in checkers
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 594, in
astng_events
    self.astng_events(child, checkers, _reversed_checkers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 594, in
astng_events
    self.astng_events(child, checkers, _reversed_checkers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 591, in
astng_events
    checker.visit(astng)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/logilab/astng/utils.py", line 85,
in visit
    method(node)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylint/checkers/base.py", line
392, in visit_return
    self._returns[-1].append(node)
IndexError: list index out of range