Does Ruby have a special stack for returning a value?

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Published on 2010-04-26T18:34:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 18:53 UTC
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The following Ruby code

def a(b,c) b+c end

is the same as follows with Python

def a(b,c): return b+c

It looks like that ruby has the special stack that stores the final evaluation result and returns the value when a function is called.

If so, what's the name of the stack, and how can I get that stack?
If not, how does the Ruby code work without returning something?

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