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In article <2311@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
   Herman Rubin writes:
   > I want
   > to be able even to introduce overloaded infix operators in addition to the
   > usual ones. Another feature missing from most languages since day 1 is to
   > allow the return of a list (NOT a struct).
   The reason that most languages don't return lists is precisely
   that they are designed to let the hardware show through, and you can't
   fit much in a register.

Isn't the idea to return out-parameters on the left side of an
assignment?  I.e.
	(out1, out2, out3) := foo (in1, in2, in3);
corresponds to
	procedure foo (in in1, in2, in3; out out1, out2, out3) 	...
	foo (in1, in2, in3, out1, out2, out3);

This doesn't seem that bad to me.  A byte full of syntactic
sugar helps the eyestrain go down. :-)

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Scott Schwartz		<schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu>
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