Best practice regarding returning from using blocks [duplicate]

Question

Which way is better practice: return a value from a method inside an using statement or declare a variable before, set it inside and return it after?

public int Foo()
{
  using(..)
  {
     return bar;
  }
}

or

public int Foo()
{
  var b = null;
  using(..)
  {
    b = bar;
  }
  return b;
}

Answer 1

I prefer the first example. Fewer variables, fewer lines of code, easier to follow, easier to maintain...

public int Foo()
{
  using(..)
  {
     return bar;
  }
}

Answer 2

Following the "less is more" principle (really just a variant of KISS), the former. There are fewer lines of code to maintain, no change in semantics and no loss of readability (arguably this style is easier to read).