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From: byrd@portia.Stanford.EDU (Greg Byrd)
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Subject: Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division
Summary: LISP can return multiple values.
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Date: 7 Jul 89 18:08:49 GMT
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In article <13961@haddock.ima.isc.com> suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti) writes:

[original posting about returning multiple values...]

>LISP does not actually pass whole lists around - it uses pointers
>and linked lists.  [stuff deleted]
>
>You wanted to have a function be able to return more than one
>item.  [more stuff deleted]

Just wanted to point out that you *can* return multiple values in
Lisp without returning a list -- e.g., the 'values' and 
'multiple-value-bind' forms in Common Lisp.


...Greg Byrd
   Stanford University