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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: The D Programming Language
Message-ID: <741@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 01:12:16 GMT
References: <25284@cca.CCA.COM> <700@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <700@l.cc.purdue.edu>, cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> No, what is needed is to abandon the mistaken notion that a function
> returns a single result.  From day one, lists should have been allowed
> to the left of the replacement sign--this is not just for functions,
> but even for direct operators.
MESA does this.  Every function in MESA takes a record as argument and
delivers a record as result.  Since MESA has keyword constructors for
records, this magically yields keyword inputs _and_ keyword results.