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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 12:39:59 -0400
Subject: Re: Bools and explicitness [was Re: PyWart: The problem with "print"]
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> In Python, if you fail to use the return statement, then Python will return None, NOT some some value that just happens to be the last line executed in the function -- Ruby breaks the law of least astonishment.

Ruby comes from a tradition where this behavior is not astonishing.
Languages do not exist in a vacuum.

-- Devin