From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2004-02-01T01:04:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Bignums and return

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:26:46PM +0900, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "M" == Mark J Reed <markjreed@mail.com> writes:
> 
> M> It seems like "def one; return 1 end" and "def one; 1 end;" should
> M> result in identical bytecode.
> 
>  actually ruby don't use bytecode.

previous.gsub('bytecode', 'trees')

or whatever the internal compiled representation is, then. (But Rite
will use a byte code, right?)

Anyway, the point is that any extra code inserted by the "return"
should be optimized out when the return doesn't do anything.

-Mark