From: jake kaiden <jakekaiden@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Subject: Re: Understanding the return method
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:35:13 -0500
Organization: Service de news de lacave.net
Lines: 26
Message-ID: <76b9507cbd1e9b454860e51c06f9affe@ruby-forum.com>
References: <4aa6da7c8d4c99589c8a48a80c677218@ruby-forum.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302996930 20102 65.111.164.187 (16 Apr 2011 23:35:30 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:35:30 +0000 (UTC)
In-Reply-To: <4aa6da7c8d4c99589c8a48a80c677218@ruby-forum.com>
X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway
X-Mail-Count: 381732
X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk
X-Rubymirror: Yes
X-Ruby-Talk: <76b9507cbd1e9b454860e51c06f9affe@ruby-forum.com>
Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail
Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:3041

hi fily -

  while i was answering your post, vincent answered it much better than 
i ever could have.

  the one thing that i would point out, is that it is important to 
remember that by default ruby returns the LAST statement evaluated (this 
can bite you in the arse if you forget!)

 the example you gave could also be written like this (without 
'return'):

def multiply(val1, val2 )
  val1 * val2
end

value = multiply( 10, 20 )
puts value

#=>200

 -j

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.