From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-07-20T19:59:31+09:00
Subject: Re: return statement where it is usefull ?

Yvon Thoraval wrote:
> 
> Le 20 juil. 06 � 11:52, Joey a �crit :
> 
>>
>> See, "here" never gets printed, if you didn't have the return keyword:
>> def m
>>  [nil]
>>  p "here"
>> end
>> m
>> "here" does get printed.
> 
> and what's the returned value in that case ? nil, i guess...
It's the return value of the p method, which happens to be nil in this 
case.  In general, it's the value of the last expression in the method.

-- 
Alex