What this error want to say? Can't we use return without function?

[Shivlal Sharma]

On Monday, 7 September 2020 at 13:08:04 UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 5:36 PM Shivlal Sharma <sshivl... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > On Monday, 7 September 2020 at 12:57:16 UTC+5:30, Python wrote: 
> > > Shivlal Sharma wrote: 
> > > > N = int(input("enter a positive integer:")) 
> > > > coun = 1 
> > > > while (N > 0): 
> > > > coun = coun * N 
> > > > N = N - 1 
> > > > return coun 
> > > > nice = ntime(N) 
> > > > print(nice) 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > error: return outside of the function 
> > > What did you expect return out of a function to even mean? 
> > I mean that can't we use return keyword outside of the function?
> Well... no. What do you expect it to mean? It's like asking "why can't 
> I use 'else' without 'if'?" - there'd need to be some meaning for it. 
> 
> ChrisA
Ohh, got it. you mean we can't you return without a function, right?