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From: gaynor@porthos.rutgers.edu (Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: The need for D-scussion (was Re: D Wishlist)
Message-ID: <Mar.28.12.43.35.1988.1511@porthos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 88 17:43:36 GMT
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barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
> You're behind the times in your Lisp knowledge.  Common Lisp, and
> Zetalisp before it, has functions with true multiple values.  The
> above would be written
>
> (setq z (multiple-value-bind (quotient remainder)
> 	      (floor x y)
> 	    (+ (* quotient quotient) (* remainder remainder))))

I too am behind the times in my knowledge of Lisp.  How would Scheme's
continuations fit into the area of multiple return values?

Regards,
[Ag]