[OE-core] is defining an empty task same as "[noexec]" task flag?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  is overriding something like do_compile() like this:

do_compile() {
        :
}

equivalent to:

do_compile[noexec] = "1"

  if so, is there a stylistic preference?

rday

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