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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the
 Ada Programming Language
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:08:40 +0100
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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> On 2017-08-10 18:28, Pascal Obry wrote:
>> Le mercredi 09 août 2017 à 22:08 +0100, Luke A.Guest a écrit :
>>> 4) multiple return types:
>>> 
>>> function Blah return Integer, Float;
>> 
>> Generalized tuples. I would like this too.
> 
> Should not they be named? Then it is an anonymous record type:
> 
>    function Blah return
>       record Count : Integer; Value : Float end record;
> 
> How do I pass tuple elements down? Say, I have
> 
>    procedure Foo (X : Float; Y : String; Z : Integer);
> 
> Now I want to call Foo:
> 
>    Foo (X => Blah.Value, Z => Same_Blah.Count, Y => "fun");
> 
> ?
> 

Well you could implement with a bunch of generics taking different number
of types but a language level construct would be better.