Why does Array#each return an array with the same elements?

Question

I\'m learning the details of how each works in ruby, and I tried out the following line of code:

p [1,2,3,4,5].each { |element| el }

Answer 1

If you want, for some reason, to suppress the output (for example debugging in console) here is how you can achive that

  [1,2,3,4,5].each do |nr|
    puts nr.inspect
  end;nil