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From: gelleric@tp-wg.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Wolfgang Gellerich)
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Subject: Re: Out parameters in a function
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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.

Regards, Wolfgang Gellerich