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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9245b8db9abd376c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-18 06:52:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Out parameters in a function Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:52:30 +0200 Message-ID: <6ijtbuodb7o1vatst98muh155st6fajtco@4ax.com> References: <3cbbe583.3628858@news.demon.co.uk> <3cbc3f05.26543327@news.demon.co.uk> <3CBC855D.148232E3@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1019137950 4759477 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22718 Date: 2002-04-18T15:52:30+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:14:45 +0000 (UTC), gelleric@tp-wg.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Wolfgang Gellerich) wrote: >In article <3CBC855D.148232E3@san.rr.com>, > >|> 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. > >The dataflow language SISAL provides this feaure, too. Looking at less conventional languages, there are graphic ones like LabView, MatLab/Simulink, Diadem, which also have multiple results (=outputs of a block). --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de