diff --git a/lib/src/api/trace/nonrecording_span.dart b/lib/src/api/trace/nonrecording_span.dart
index 444b5ad2..50a0303f 100644
--- a/lib/src/api/trace/nonrecording_span.dart
+++ b/lib/src/api/trace/nonrecording_span.dart
@@ -62,7 +62,5 @@ class NonRecordingSpan implements api.Span {
   api.InstrumentationLibrary get instrumentationLibrary => null;
 
   @override
-  void recordException(dynamic exception, {StackTrace stackTrace}) {
-    return;
-  }
+  void recordException(dynamic exception, {StackTrace stackTrace}) {}
 }
diff --git a/lib/src/sdk/trace/tracer.dart b/lib/src/sdk/trace/tracer.dart
index 90536551..4bbb6542 100644
--- a/lib/src/sdk/trace/tracer.dart
+++ b/lib/src/sdk/trace/tracer.dart
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class Tracer implements api.Tracer {
         attributes: attributes);
   }
 
-  /// Records a span of the given [name] for the given asynchronous function
+  /// Records a span of the given [name] for the given function
   /// and marks the span as errored if an exception occurs.
   @override
   FutureOr<R> trace<R>(String name, FutureOr<R> Function() fn,