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Because the compiler ensures the counts match, the only situation where a crash should be possible would be:

a, b, c = call_function( routine_id("foo"), {}) 

I'd initially agreed that this shouldn't be an error, but I no longer think that's the case.

Mainly, I figure that if you're trying to read more values back than a routine returns, it's a pretty strong hint that perhaps something is wrong.

After all, the parser treats it as a fatal error.

You've still go the de-sequencing operator to fall back to if you want to handle multiple values. But my assumption is that a routine should return a fixed number of parameters.

If you're just trying to avoid having Euphoria throw an exception, I figure better exception handling is the path to take.

Could you give an example of where you think you might encounter this use case?

- David