Is it good style to explicitly return in Ruby?

Question

Coming from a Python background, where there is always a \"right way to do it\" (a \"Pythonic\" way) when it comes to style, I\'m wondering if the same exists for Ruby. I\'v

Answer 1

Like Ben said. The fact that 'the return value of a ruby method is the return value of the last statement in the function body' causes the return keyword to be rarely used in most ruby methods.

def some_func_which_returns_a_list( x, y, z)
  return nil if failed_some_early_check


  # function code 

  @list     # returns the list
end