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From: markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
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Subject: Re: function returning a record?
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Date: 5 Mar 89 21:59:02 GMT
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In article <2012@pur-phy> murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy) writes:
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>I found out that Turbo Pascal 5.0 does not support returning a record as a
>value. Does this imply that a function can only return a single value? 
>Is there any way to get a function to return a record?

I know of three way to do it:
(1) Have the function return a pointer to the record,
(2) Use a procedure with var parameters,
(3) Rewrite the Pascal compiler (and get ANSI to modify the standard).

Pascal is otherwise limited in this respect.