Re: Language Tenets (was Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division

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From: Jeff Dalton
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1989 16:21

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In article <1207@quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>CommonLisp, you may point out, does have multiple returns.  In fact,
>CommonLisp is a good example of the problem I'm pointing out.
>Basically, there's not much you can do with a multiple-value expression
>except ignore all but the first value (which happens if you nest a MV
>expression within a function call) and assign its results to variables.

Well, I often do other things with them.

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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Language Tenets (was Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division
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Date: 22 Jul 89 16:21:30 GMT
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