From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.belwue.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!tsicnews.teliasonera.com!news.otenet.gr!news.grnet.gr!newsfd02.forthnet.gr!not-for-mail From: Ioannis Vranos Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:03:01 +0200 Organization: FORTHnet S.A., Atthidon 4, GR-17671 Kalithea, Greece, Tel: +30 2109559000, Fax: +30 2109559333, url: http://www.forthnet.gr Message-ID: <1110571379.816394@athnrd02> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <42309456$1@news.broadpark.no> <1110570242.82910@athnrd02> NNTP-Posting-Host: athnrd02.forthnet.gr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: athprx02.forthnet.gr 1110571380 29724 193.92.150.73 (11 Mar 2005 20:03:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@forthnet.gr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:03:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1110570242.82910@athnrd02> Cache-Post-Path: newsfd02!unknown@ppp16-adsl-170.ath.forthnet.gr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9166 comp.lang.c++:45212 comp.realtime:1305 comp.software-eng:4873 Date: 2005-03-11T22:03:01+02:00 List-Id: Ioannis Vranos wrote: > Personally although more sugar-rich (and still built with the current > C++ facilities, which demonstrates the power and expressiveness of the > language), I am not sure we needed Tuple types, since std::pair does the > job. :-) > > I suppose tuple types continue to be convenient for something like 10 > return values, since it is just a returned object with the contained > values, but I think returning (or passing) so many values means > something is wrong. :-) Since tuple types are to be used for more things than only returned and passed values, I recall the above. :-) -- Ioannis Vranos http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys