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From: Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Out parameters in a function
Date: 16 Apr 2002 20:34:04 +0100 (BST)
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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)

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