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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple Return Values From Functions (was Re: Language Tenets)
Keywords: multiple-valued expressions, function parameter lists
Message-ID: <8271@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 14 Jul 89 20:29:21 GMT
References: <1207@quintus.UUCP> <15141@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <15141@watdragon.waterloo.edu> dwtill@watyew.waterloo.edu (Dave Till) writes:
 > I think it would be more elegant to allow the returning of multiple
 > values, as in
 > 
 > 	[quotient,remainder] = divrem(top,bottom);
 > 
Change this to:
	[quotient,remainder]:= divrem[top,bottom];
and you have Mesa, Xerocs language.
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