From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T01:40:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple return and parallel assignement

James Britt wrote:
> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Maybe. A vector.
> 
> Or, um, a list.

Vector implements List...
;-)

    Java the Hutt