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From: daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The D Programming Language
Message-ID: <1354@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 03:07:01 GMT
References: <25284@cca.CCA.COM>
Reply-To: daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton)
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In article <25284@cca.CCA.COM> g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
>Here is another feature for D whose absence in C has been irksome to
>me -- I would like to be able to return several items from a function.
>... But how do I get stuff back.
>... Things which are returned need a mechanism equivalent to pass
>by address.

Please don't design D until you understand C.
C has had pass by reference for a very long time (since its inception?).
The following useless code illustrates:

	int flag, foobar();
	x = foobar(&flag);
	...
	int foobar(arg)
		int *arg;
	{
		*arg = 1;
		return 0;
	}

Now, what could be simpler?
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