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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:31:47 -0500
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"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> wrote in message 
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> Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:
>> Le mercredi 09 août 2017 à 22:08 +0100, Luke A.Guest a écrit :
>>> 4) multiple return types:
>>>
>>> function Blah return Integer, Float;
>>
>> Generalized tuples. I would like this too.
>>
>
> I wanted this in Ada95 when I wanted to return a value and an error code
> from a function, had to change it to a procedure, could do it now with an
> out parameter on a function but a type would still be better.

Error codes are evil. Use an exception. ;-)

(Yes, this has happened to me, too, but that doesn't change the above.)

Speaking of evil, anonymous types are evil. Why is it hard to declare a 
record type for this purpose?

                                Randy.