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From: john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: Out parameters in a function
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:26:02 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:05:01 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

>>Unfortunate that they didn't follow the Occam example of having a
>>function capable of returning multiple values!

>Let they do. I.e. let a function return an object of anonymous record
>type which components are returned values:
>
>function Match_Pattern (..) return
>   record
>      Place : Position;
>      Matched : String;
>   end record;

It was more of a:

    BYTE, BYTE FUNCTION split.int16 (VAL INT16 n)
      BYTE high, low:
      VALOF
        SEQ
          high := BYTE (n >> 8)
          low := BYTE (n /\ 8)
        RESULT high, low
    :

type of thing, but I can't remember off-hand how you would use a
returned status with multiple return values!