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Ruby

Posted by Kaitlin Saunders
Kaitlin Saunders
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Purpose of "return" in this method

There is probably a really simple explanation for this, but I'm not understanding the purpose of "return" in this method.

Here's what I have: 'def get_name() print "Enter your name: " return gets.chomp end

name = get_name() puts "Hi #{name}!" '

I though it had something to do with locality/scope, but it produces the same results even with or without the "return".

What do you all think?

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So the purpose of a function is to do something, this function RETURNs a value, then when you call it name = get_name() get_name() will return a value (the user input) and assign it to the variable name

Kaitlin Saunders
Kaitlin Saunders
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Okay, that makes sense. Thanks!