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From: Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Out parameters in a function
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:10:00 GMT
Date: 2002-04-16T20:10:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CBC855D.148232E3@san.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: G8g*R8Xlp@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk

> >        RESULT high, low
>  h, l := split.int16 (365)

Note that in virtually all these languages, what this means is "return
an anonymous tuple from the function."  AFAIK, FORTH is the only
reasonably common language where you can *actually* return multiple
values from a function, rather than returning a single structured value.

-- 
Darren New 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-16 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-14 18:29 Out parameters in a function Nazgul
2002-04-14 19:45 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-04-15 10:49 ` John McCabe
2002-04-15 11:51   ` John McCabe
2002-04-15 13:43 ` Steve Doiel
2002-04-15 15:09 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-16  8:49   ` John McCabe
2002-04-16 10:05     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-04-16 15:26       ` John McCabe
2002-04-16 19:34         ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-04-16 20:10           ` Darren New [this message]
2002-04-17  1:30             ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-17 16:15               ` Darren New
2002-04-19 17:39               ` Florian Weimer
2002-04-17 13:24             ` Stephen Leake
2002-04-17 16:32               ` Darren New
2002-04-17 21:03               ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-18 12:14             ` Wolfgang Gellerich
2002-04-18 13:52               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-04-18 16:28                 ` Darren New
2002-04-17 10:17           ` John McCabe
2002-04-16 19:58         ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-16 20:00         ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-17  4:40           ` Jim Rogers
2002-04-17  5:27             ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-17  5:50             ` Eric G. Miller
2002-04-24  2:45               ` David Thompson
2002-04-19 17:40             ` Florian Weimer
2002-04-19 18:26               ` Jim Rogers
2002-04-19 18:53                 ` Florian Weimer
2002-04-17  7:57           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-04-17 10:21             ` John McCabe
2002-04-24 17:21             ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-04-26  7:32               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-04-15 16:24 ` Stephen Leake
2002-04-16 13:38   ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-17 11:55 ` Ingo Marks
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