From: Guillaume Cottenceau <gcottenc@...>
Date: 2005-05-23T20:56:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple return and parallel assignement

On 5/20/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Eric Mahurin wrote:
> > I've never quite understood why most languages inherently
> > support returning only a single value
> 
> Conceptual elegance?
> 
> Seems cleaner to say that every expression returns an object, though
> that the object may be a container for other objects, rather than assert
> that expressions may return an unknown number of objects

Then you would prefer that a function/method only takes one object as
parameter, for conceptual elegance?

No, this is all coming from implementation simplification.

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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://zarb.org/~gc/