eloquent query scopes question

I was wondering what difference does it make to return the query, i've been working with scopes for a some time and yet to find a difference.

public function scopePublished($query)
{
	return $query->where('published', true);
}

public function scopePublished($query)
{
	$query->where('published', true);
}

both seems to work quite the same even with chaining multiple scopes

Level 75

Usually called from controller, you generally need "return".

I have never tried it without return. Also, I'd go with documentation examples no matter.

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