Re: Out parameters in a function

[john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe)]

On 16 Apr 2002 20:34:04 +0100 (BST), Matthew Woodcraft
<mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

>In article <3cbc3f05.26543327@news.demon.co.uk>,
>John McCabe <john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com> wrote:
>>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!
>
> h, l := split.int16 (365)

Thanks, but that's not what I meant. What I meant was if one of the
return values was boolean, and one an int for example, and you wanted
to check the returned boolean without bothering to assign it to a
variable! I presume that this doesn't make sense to do (so probably
can't be done) - I'll have to check my Occam books toinight!

It probably wasn't worth mentioning in the first place :-)