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From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski)
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Subject: What evil would happen?
Date: 11 Jul 2003 12:51:18 -0700
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Hello,

What would happen if a procedure could return a value like a function,
or a function could accept an out parameter? Would it make procedures
less procedural? Or impure functions even less impure? Or is there a
reason for this in compiler implementation details?

I feel like with SML like tagged union datatypes I'd be done long
ago... Is there an AI for this maybe?

I am trying to create a parser for CLFF files.

Regards,
Wojtek