From: Andrew Hunt Date: 2002-03-16T01:15:27+09:00 Subject: Re: style question >How do we feel about methods that return more than one result? It it OK? Is it a >code smell indicating that some kind of object is trying to be born? I think it depends. If you're return a simple tuple (key, value pair), then adding a "real" object to hold them is probably just adding noise. On the other hand, returning a whole bunch of objects that you have to index to use stinks all the way from here. :-) /\ndy