what is the point of return in Ruby?

Question

What is the difference between return and just putting a variable such as the following:

no return

def write_code(number_of_errors)
           


        

Answer 1

Its nice ruby gives this good feature of not specifying return statement explicitly but I just feel, as a programming standard, one should always strive to specify "return" statements wherever required. This helps in making code more readable for someone who is coming from different background like C++, Java, PHP etc. and learning ruby. "return" statement will not harm anything, so why skip conventional and more standard way of returning from functions.