From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2003-12-20T05:57:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to return more than one result from a method?

Hi --

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Hal Fulton wrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
> > Anyway, Robert seemed to be suggesting that, of the two ways that have
> > been demonstrated, returning a single array is the 'appropriate' way
> > and that was what I wasn't following.  
> 
> A semantic issue. But then, isn't everything?
> 
> The actual return is an array either way. Whether you then assign
> it to one var or two is beyond the control or concern of the method.

I should have said: I thought Robert meant that saving to one variable
was the appropriate way -- i.e., I thought he was saying that there was
something inherently bad about doing:

  a,b = meth

and that one should always do:

  all = meth

Aside from not having expressed clearly what I thought he meant, I
later realized that he hadn't meant that anyway -- he was talking
about the rhs (i.e., what's appropriate is to do: return a,b).


David

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David A. Black
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