Re: More than one values returned?

At 4:57 PM -0600 2/19/08, Greg Donald wrote:

On 2/18/08, Nick Stinemates <nick@stinemates.org> wrote:

I have found, however, that if I ever need to return /multiple/ values, it's usually because of bad design and/or the lack of proper encapsulation.

Yeah, that's probably why most popular scripting languages support it. In Ruby: def foo 1, 2 end a, b = foo In Python: def foo return 1, 2 a, b = foo In Perl: sub foo { return (1, 2); } (my $a, my $b) = foo;

For completeness sake, this is pretty much the same in PHP: function test() {

      return array(1,2);

} list($a,$b) = test(); works as above. Works fine with complex arrays as well: function test() {

      return array(1,array('a','b'));

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