From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-06-04T04:45:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing the "it" keyword

On 03.06.2007 19:47, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
> On 31 May 2007, at 06:35, Robert Dober wrote:
>> But maybe things should really by simple
>>
>> return if x > 42
>> return unless (x+1)%2 == 0 # not zero? here
>>
>> could probably made syntactically work (differently than now) and
>> return the LHS of the expression iff the expression evaluates to true
>> or false respectively.
> 
> Unfortunately this would greatly complicate the situation in which a 
> return without value is intended...

In Ruby there is no such thing.  Every method returns something - even 
if it's nil.

Kind regards

	robert