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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: The D Programming Language: cases (fallthrough)
Message-ID: <2550055@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 88 07:41:48 GMT
References: <2403@umd5.umd.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> The following example is illustrative syntax only:
> 
> [int *,int] foobar();
> ....
> [ptr,flag] = foobar(arg)
>    int arg;
> {
>    int *a, *b;
>    ....
>    return [a,1];
>    ....
>    return [b,0];
> }

How about this syntax:

    struct foo { int *x, y; } foobar();

    struct foo foobar(arg)
    int arg;
    {
	int *a, *b;

    ...
	return {a, 1};
    ...
	return {b, 0};
    }

This way, all you're adding to the existing language is aggregate expressions.

Dave Decot
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