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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Out parameters in a function
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"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> writes:

> "Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> > >        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.
>
> Ummm.  APL, PL/PGSQL, CLAIRE, ML (and so OCaml, JoCaml), ...

And Common Lisp.