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Re:Ask HN: Where is the Django community? by ladyrassilon on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @05:45AM (#2780162)
Its a keyword, but its not needed (as its not needed in many modern languages) but many rubyists I've worked with said that it was a nice feature that the return keyword was unnecessary and did not use it.
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Re:Ask HN: Where is the Django community? by masklinn on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @07:43AM (#2780427)
> but its not needed

Depends. It's needed for non-local returns (returning from within blocks), and it's also useful for early returns within methods.

It's not needed for the final return of a method, or a normal exit from a block (not a bad thing in my opinion, and Python's lambda do the same)

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