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From: "Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com>
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"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), ...

Polyadic valued functions are actually fairly common programming
features, I found one reference proposing installing them in Java, and
the Java Enumeration is vaguely such a beast already.

xanthian.


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