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On 11 Mar 2005, at 19:43, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> ... I think returning (or passing) so many values means something is 
> wrong. :-)

Returning maybe, but passing no. In some domains e.g. GUI it is normal 
to have operations requiring a lot of parameters e.g.

OSErr MakeTrackTimeTable (
      Track        trackH,
      long         **offsets,
      TimeValue    startTime,
      TimeValue    endTime,
      TimeValue    timeIncrement,
      short        firstDataRefIndex,
      short        lastDataRefIndex,
      long         *retdataRefSkew );